ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Vitamin D Deficiency, Ethnomedicine, Biomedicine
28 Nov 2016
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Medical anthropology: how different people think and behave regarding health, illness and healing. Not one of the traditional" four field sub-disciples. Medical (physical) anthropologist - issues of health amongst different canadians. Studies nutrition via school meals (comparative approach): canada, france, japan. Influence of class on nutrition in hamilton: comparing child health by neighbourhood. Ethnomedicine: long discussed study - cross cultural health systems. Health systems: healer and healing (magical, religious, scientific, substances) Western biomedicine (wbm): healing approach based on modern western science. Medical anthropologists study wbm as another" health system. One that is intimately bound to western values. Epistemology: the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. For different cultures what is the nature of knowledge. What is the rationality of belief and justification. Belief in science (scientific reasoning, scientific laws, logic, testable hypotheses, predictability) Disease x is caused by factor y and can be treated by medicine/surgery z.
