ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Carlos Castaneda, Plastic Surgery, Medical Anthropology
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How anthropology has been very influential in our culture start thinking about essays early on in the course. Medical anthropology journals held more weight, if you published work in a medical anthropology journal your work was more likely to be cited within and outside of anthropology. Imbalance or variation in terms of diseases that inflict human populations. Kuru is a neurological disorder caused by an infectious disease, passed on from human to human, if not treated within days you will die, its fatal. Why kuru is interesting because a population called the, fore", in papa new. Guinea, had it more than any population in the world. What was interesting about the distribution of kuru was the gender imbalance, females and children were more likely to become infected. Kuru was what they called a "slow virus", no longer called this now called "prions" highly infectious. Doctors couldn"t figure that out, that"s why the anthropologists came in.
