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Medical anthropology

suffering that results from what political, economic and institutional power does to people, treated as a social rather than only an individual or medical matter.

In medical anthropology, social suffering refers to suffering that results from what political, economic and institutional power does to people, treated as a social rather than only an individual or medical matter. This meaning comes from Kleinman (1997) in Social suffering.[1]

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Kleinman, A., Das, V., & Lock, M. M. (1997). Social suffering. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209930

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