ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lactose Intolerance, Cohort Study, Cardiovascular Disease
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Biomedicine itself shaped by cultural and national settings (sociopolitical, historic, economic) o. Theoretical approach that stems from the cartesian idea. Authoritarian approach; but may be open into alternate. Biomedicine starts out looking at a specific cause of a disease and you have to identify the cause that will have some biological origin. Cultural responses to death and to choices surrounding death o. Once you are considered brain dead it is not possible that you will survive. Japan associated with the heart meant that the brain was not that important. Associates the heart with life force and so removal of it or other organs is problematic. Emphasizes maintaining the integrity of the body for immortality. A modern practice of biomedicine is being set against a number of. Discourages desecration of body during extended funerary rituals cultures. Particularly effective for pain, nausea, asthma and phobia.
