HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Leprosy, Economic Liberalization
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Lecture 2: bio-cultural perspective on health critical medical anthropology. Quiz # 1: socioeconomic status can include factors such as: education and employment, income and housing type, all of the above, none of the above. Recognizes importance of culture, views about medicine and medical care (healing), which often do not reflect the. Recognition that individual humans are active participants in defining, treating and coping with disease: focus on the individual rather than the group, what that individual does within the society, active participants in the choices we make. Recognition that causes of human disease are culturally defined (not purely objective: different cultures have different ways to define disease, defining illness is not objective. Importance of historical contingency: things that happened in your parents" and grandparents" in terms of health, can play a role in your current health whether it be a physiological or psychosocial.
