ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Neoliberalism, Global Warming, Debt Crisis
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Use language as a barrier from the public but as authority for the physicians. Medical pleuralism social environment with many resources that give different understandings. Japan prescriptions in german took on medicine from germany when developing of illness so how do people choose which one. Being labeled as with illness impacts socially. Four field model physical/bio, archeo, linguistic, sociocultural anthro. Studies of ethnomedicine: small scale societies, many ritual practices, witchcraft, shaumenism, they were described in detail, 70s anthropologists directed attention to more complex medicine, and particularly. Asian medicine long standing traditions: study of comparative medicine ethnomedicine. Physical anthro not in this course: work with pathologists, epidemiologists, used biomedicine approach, comparative anatomy. Idea of evolution and adaptation: strongmedical component, medical ecology how disease operate in a particular environment, sickle cell anemia why is it existing the trait confers immunity to malaria, genetic evolutionary approach.
