ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Humorism, Medical Anthropology, Dental Caries
20 Jan 2017
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The study of human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation. Draws upon 4 subdivisions of anthropology to analyze and compare the health of regional populations of ethnic and cultural enclaves. Ethnomedicine cross-cultural study of health and health systems: how people view their illness and disease and what they ought to do about it. All cultures have a health system: perceptions and beliefs about the body, classifications of health problems, prevention measures, healing/healers. Illness perceptions and experiences of a health problem. I"(cid:373) tired all the time: feeling of psychological or spiritual imbalance, feeling of not being in normal/health state, perception of illness very closely related to culture and our perception of culture we live in. Disease biological health problem; universal: physical, biological health problem, very often at the root of experienced illness, universally applicable. Infection with measles: tooth decay, broken bones, disease not really related to culture, how we cope with it differs from culture to culture.
