ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quran, Anorexia Nervosa, Medical Anthropology
17 Jan 2017
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Linked to concern with appearance and body weight. People used to cherish bigger women with curves. Being bigger used to show wealth (still does in certain parts of the world) Marilyn monroe: the ideal 1950s female body type in north america. Environment interacts with culture to influence the cause and spread of health problems. Anorexia nervosa: results from urbanization, modernization, stressors". Interpretive: focus on illness and healing as symbols and meanings. Critical: focus on how economic and political factors affect health and access to healing, anorexia nervosa. Armadillos are the only other non-human host of leprosy. Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon sri lanka. Believed to be in a large part self-inflicted: gluttony, swearing falsely by the koran, washing in water a leprosy patient has used. The experience of illness varies according to culture. Sickness is not just an isolated event, nor an unfortunate brush with nature.
