HLTB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hopi Language, Conversation Analysis, Jargon
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Starting in the 60s when medical anthropology developed into a different field. Was increasing recognition among anthropologist sand public health workers that people don"t exist as empty vessels to be filled with health knowledge. Crises in medicine - shift that happened away from the focus of infectious diseases. Klienman us an american physician, psychiatrist and trained as a anthropologist. Started to propose that in light of the development of anthropological developments, its coming upon us to use this to understand processes in different cultural contexts. Wanted to encourage people in health care not to dismiss patients. He illustrated this by the disease-illness distinction. Pathology is a malfunction or abnormality in biological process illness is when the individual defines, explains, experiences, and responds to a suffering. Klienman treated a person for clinical depression, found out the man was haunted by his experience as a soldier. And this is what was driving his clinical depression.
