ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jim Yong Kim, Medical Anthropology, Structural Violence
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Global health / bio medicalization medical anthropology: study of disease, health problems, health care systems, and theories about illness in different cultures and ethnic groups. Disease a scientifically identified health threat (something that can be measured or quantified. Illness a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual or community (being sick, there is always a cost to being sick) has one symptom with more than one cause. Personalistic disease theories illness caused by agents such as sorcerers, witches, ghosts, or ancestral spirits (good part of the world believes in this eg evil eye someone looks at you can causes you to be sick) Emotionalistic disease theories illness caused by extreme emotional experiences (eg trauma, witnessing misfortune of someone else, loss of social position or loss of a loved one) . Western perspective would be from a psychological view; depression, imbalance of the mind.
