Mustafa Abdalla
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mustafa Abdalla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mustafa |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdalla |
| SIGNATURE | ABDALLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Medical anthropology is highly relevant to the practice of health professions in the health sector. While the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME, 2020) includes the discipline in its recommendations, other fields like nursing and occupational therapy have done it without international regulations in parts of the world for a long time. Training teachers of the discipline for the field is still in development worldwide and needs more atten…
Training for teaching medical anthropology in Egypt/the Arab region
Medical anthropology is a growing subfield of anthropology, especially as a subject within health education. Medical anthropology knowledge and skills improve the satisfaction of patients and health professionals, better health outcomes for patients, improve communication, avoid conflicts, or make it possible to deal successfully with these etc. The Arab region is an underserved one when it comes to medical anthropology in health education. We ca…
Coming Together in the So-Called Refugee Crisis
In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the ‘refugee crisis’. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with significant challenges. In this article, we focus on a series of encounters in Berlin, bringing together refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists. As we thought and wrote together about shared experiences, we discovered the limitations of the normative assumption…
Medical Students' Experiences with Professional Patients in Egypt
This article explores a specific kind of student–patient interaction in Egypt. It demonstrates how the increasing need for patients in medical schools and the shift to a neoliberal economy have generated a population of 'bioavailable' professional patients who find meaning in their diseases and sell knowledge about them in medical schools. The encounter with these patients causes tensions and has its high financial costs for the students; yet, so…
Friendly Skulls, Mechanical Bodies
Anatomy and cadavers trigger fear and produce contradictory responses. In these circumstances, allegedly Western models of learning and the exposure to death have to be appropriated to become viable. Furthermore, references to the religious and cultural backgrounds of students shape their responses. According to students, death is an event when the deceased acquires supernatural powers; thus, they take shield in religion to ward off potential dan…
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Medical Students' Experiences with Professional Patients in Egypt
This article explores a specific kind of student–patient interaction in Egypt. It demonstrates how the increasing need for patients in medical schools and the shift to a neoliberal economy have generated a population of 'bioavailable' professional patients who find meaning in their diseases and sell knowledge about them in medical schools. The encounter with these patients causes tensions and has its high financial costs for the students; yet, so…
Friendly Skulls, Mechanical Bodies
Anatomy and cadavers trigger fear and produce contradictory responses. In these circumstances, allegedly Western models of learning and the exposure to death have to be appropriated to become viable. Furthermore, references to the religious and cultural backgrounds of students shape their responses. According to students, death is an event when the deceased acquires supernatural powers; thus, they take shield in religion to ward off potential dan…
Coming Together in the So-Called Refugee Crisis
In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the ‘refugee crisis’. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with significant challenges. In this article, we focus on a series of encounters in Berlin, bringing together refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists. As we thought and wrote together about shared experiences, we discovered the limitations of the normative assumption…
ToT
Medical anthropology is highly relevant to the practice of health professions in the health sector. While the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME, 2020) includes the discipline in its recommendations, other fields like nursing and occupational therapy have done it without international regulations in parts of the world for a long time. Training teachers of the discipline for the field is still in development worldwide and needs more atten…
Training for teaching medical anthropology in Egypt/the Arab region
Medical anthropology is a growing subfield of anthropology, especially as a subject within health education. Medical anthropology knowledge and skills improve the satisfaction of patients and health professionals, better health outcomes for patients, improve communication, avoid conflicts, or make it possible to deal successfully with these etc. The Arab region is an underserved one when it comes to medical anthropology in health education. We ca…
Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Applied anthropology (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medical anthropology (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works)