ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnomedicine, Biomedical Model, Grou
27 Mar 2019
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Biomedical model of health: the absence of disease and normal functioning of the body. Social model of health: implies a sense of wholeness, wellness, and well-being. From who: health is a "state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not m infirmity" Disease: objective pathology afflicting a patient (cancer, malaria, copd) Sickness: the social manifestation of the body"s physical reaction to disease (fever, rash. Allows a person to take on a socially defined sick role. Illness: subjective experience of disease, sickness, or distress whether or not there is a d. Can be interpreted differently over time, and is understood through culture. How you experience an illness, the language used to explain one"s experience. Curing: the removal or correction of organic pathology. Healing: the broader subjective experience of the restoration of physical, mental, emoti. We can have disease without illness, and illness without disease; cure without healing; healin.
