ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ethnomedicine, Environmental Health, Biopolitics
22 Apr 2016
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Biopolitics and the state: part 5 (theoretical approaches) Western biological category and not a universal experience. Illness the experience of suffering as culturally determined or constructed. Social, spiritual, etc: this is why ethnomedicine thinks that explanatory models are very important because experiences of illnesses are not just biological. Ancestral ghosts and spirits: healers must use supernatural means to learn the cause and treat the disease (i. e. voodooism, 2. Illness is due to negative emotional experiences: anxiety causes lethargy in south america susto , encompasses the idea of somatization, 3. Illnesses are attributed to physical organisms (i. e. bacteria or viruses: link of disease and illness to scientific causes, more than one disease model can be applied to each person suffering from an illness. Priscilla medeiros, 2: measurable construct present at the individual and population level it is a quantitative approach wants to measure the social, individual and environmental.
