ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: François Duvalier, Tonton Macoute, Liberation Theology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Global health and bio-medicalization: medical anthropology theories about illness in different cultures and ethnic groups. = study of disease, health problems, health care systems, and. = a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual or community. = beliefs, customs, specialists and techniques: theories about the causes of illness: = impersonal explanations of illness, no concept of the supernatural, illness is caused by identifiable natural causes (e. g. having an accident: biomedical model. Scientific epistemology (valued knowledge is derived from experimentation: natural basis of illness: natural science. The human body and its function: claude bernard (1813-1878) founder of modern physiology, an introduction of the study of experimental medicine (1865, homeostasis. = health (maintaining internal body harmony= new concept of health) Epidemiology (studying the distribution of diseases: illness in population/ demography, cultural- interpretive model. Transcending the limits of the biomedical model. Examining the cultural basis of illness and health.