ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Biopower, Biomedicine, Medical Anthropology
Document Summary
The mindful body: a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology. Western assumptions about the mind and body. Phenomenally experienced individual body-self; as a social body, a natural symbol for thinking about relationships among nature, society, and culture; as a body politic, as an artifact. The anthropology of the body and anthropological discourse on the body. The body as simultaneously a physical and symbolic artifcact, as both naturally and culturally produced, and as securely anchored in a particular historical moment. The way in which body has been perceived in scientific biomedicine and in anthropology. Body two: social body (has control over the individual body) Interaction between mind, body and individual, social, and body politic in the production and expression of health and illness. Sickness is not just an isolated event, not an unfortunate brush with nature. Catresian dualism that separates mind from body, spirit from matter, and real from unreal.
