Anthropologist Quote by Valerie Sinason

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King

“We have done everything within the scope of modern medicine.' Those are just words. They apparently did everything within their erratic knowledge and the…

— Sándor Márai

“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t…

— Mary Dimmock

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

“The jobs that showed me the door later proved instrumental in developing human health research.”

— Steven Magee

“The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your…

— Gillian Tett

“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have…

— Atul Gawande

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on…

— Clifford Geertz

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

— Anonymous