ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lifesaving, Fentanyl, Medical Anthropology
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This week: 3 cases of applied medical anthropology. Harm reduction aims to keep people safe and minimize death, disease and injury from high risk behavior (bc cdc) Impaired driving, needle exchange , substitution therapies, supervised consumption sites. Why do you think something like harm reduction" could: be feverently opposed, misunderstood. 200 million girls and women have been subjected to fgm in over 30 countries (un numbers) Myriad physical and psychological problems (short-term, long-term, and obstetrical) Bioethical dilemmas : fgm is different from male circumcision control women and curb their sexual desires. Performing or assisting in female genital cutting is a criminal offence in canada. For many advocacy groups should not be any medicalization at all of fgm. Type 1: sunna (removal or hood of clitoris) Type 2: partial or complete removal of clitoris and part/all of labia minora. Type 3: infibulation (removal of clitoris, labia minora, and most of labia majora)
