Anthropological perspectives and their research approaches are particularly able to contribute to the understanding of human health and illness. Assess the accuracy of this claim.

This essay critically evaluates the major anthropological perspectives and the approaches they use to study health and illness.  Anthropological research seeks to examine societal norms, values and practices regarding health and illness and examine the relationships and roles of health practitioners, methodologies of healing, and health systems.  The diverse discipline that is anthropology is well placed to critically analyse a societys health systems as medical anthropologists are not generally stake holders in the health system….(short extract)