Health, illness and disability and Margaret Mead

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Health, illness and disability and Margaret Mead

Original language description

The anthropologist Margaret Mead lectured at the National Institute of Mental Health during the Second War World and her work was published by the Institute, but her papers rarely appeared in medical journals. Objectives: I will discuss the appearance of the following themes, which mainly appeared in Mead’s autobiography: child develop- ment, adolescence and disability. These topics are sometimes described generally and in other cases in detail, so further reading from other of her books is needed. Regarding the scientific validity of her arguments I searched medical journals for papers discussing her contribution to these and related themes. Methods: PubMed database was searched for papers where the keyword Margaret Mead, child development, adolescence and disability were used. Later, snowballing search technique was used to search for more medical articles on Margaret Mead. Results: Though Mead’s autobiography attracts attention to themes related to health, illness and disability, I suggest that further readings of her published works are needed to understand fully her ideas. Conclusions: The contribution of Margaret Mead to medicine could be significant, but the fact that her major ideas in this field could not make their ways to medical literature blocked her way to the mainstream of modern medicine in these areas. Exposing the medical community to research from other disciplines, not published in medical databases is of a great significance. From the case of Mead, we learn that evidence relevant to medicine could reside in non-medical publications, even in autobiographies and other genres.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal on Disability and Human Development

ISSN

2191-1231

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

139-145

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85101599532