ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Major Depressive Disorder, Medical Anthropology, Phlegm
15 Mar 2016
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Blood-letting: most sick people- excess heat & moisture (fever, sweating, cough, barbers offered this (white & red poles, illness came from out-of-honour, blood-letting restored balance, leeches remove excess blood. Hot-cold theory of diseases: latin-american folk medical practice, emphasis on body imbalance, hot & cold drinks, food & environment. Other models: miasma natural state & diseases, believe diseases can from harmful air, considered natural to that area, contagion , through contact w germ, citizens could be protected through corretin. Germ theory: microscope innovations, koch & pasteur disease specificity, more interested in mechanism, diff diseases caused by diff germs, disease caused by damage to tissues, as technology improves more bacteria we can see & evaluate. Our health system: western biomedicine: body = machine, repairing body, technology treated disease, treatment kill microorganism / eliminate disease, battle metaphors of bacteria us vs them, balance. Healers (curanderos: spiritists, bonesetters, masseurs, midwives, homeopath etc , selection of healer based on symptoms or illness.
