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Exploring Medical Anthropology by Joralemon Kimura is an engaging text that engages the reader, inviting them to take an anthropological perspective into their own lives. This text uses a variety of personal accounts to describe the experiences of living with HIV and AIDS. I liked that the book was written as an exploration of one's own identity and cultural belonging. My only complaint is that there is very little information on historical or scientific anthropology, and while there are some brief discussions of medical ethics, the focus of the text is the life of Kimura's gay black man lover, Remigado.

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I think that some of what makes this text so interesting is that it invites you to examine your own assumptions about who you are and where you fit in. The author points out that one of the first things we learn about ourselves when studying the past is how we internalize our cultural expectations about the self. The reality is that many of our assumptions about ourselves are informed by racism and sexism, two factors that have affected our health and lives since our discovery.

Kimura does not gloss over these important issues, but delivers an important message that he is able to illustrate through the story of Remigado. In addition, he poses important questions about masculinity and ethnicity that must be examined if we are ever going to move beyond the boundaries of convention. It is important that medical anthropologists not only be educated in the medical sciences, but they must be well rounded communicators on matters that affect people's lives. This book teaches that medical anthropology is not just a subject that deals with diseases and infections, but also how the medical sciences can be socially and politically progressive in changing cultural norms. After reading this book, I'm confident that medical anthropology will continue to be a part of the discussion for a long time to come.