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Long Abstract
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In the 21st century, with the advancement of science and technology, the domain of anthropology needs to be re-engineered. Biological anthropology has much to gain from its engagement in societal issues and much to lose by distancing science from the needs of society. Thus, biological Anthropology needs to dedicate their work to help the understanding and solution of contemporary human difficulties, from the study of the ecological determinants of chronic diseases like obesity and hypertension metabolic syndrome to the genomic error and its impacts and social perception to the discussion about the value of the use of the term education and many others. Biological anthropology must address disease, and the health care systems developed to cope with the disease. It has to study the spectrum of cultural and biological factors that have contributed to health, disease, and healthcare systems throughout human experience from cross-cultural, historical, and evolutionary points of view. Needs to address a wide variety of health and health care issues, including cultural barriers to therapeutic and preventive health care; issues of bioethics; the effect of pandemics, epidemics, and natural disasters; the impact of public policy on health care, practitioner-patient communication in hospitals settings, ethnomedical practices; nutrition. The panel looks towards bringing these discussions to the table. It is happy to recieve papers of biologial andtrhopology adress various social issues and are solution driven in nature.
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