ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Medical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnomedicine
6 Mar 2018
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Marxist, political economy, macro social approach (often called critical medical. Critical medical anthropology ( margaret lock, developed from critical cultural anthropology) ethnomedicine, early streams. Korea ( d. sich): a normal symptom becomes an illness because of psychological poblems. Three insights that gave rise to medical anthropology. Gps/psychiatrists/ and other health professionals saw that: Sickness/illness/disease is not only a biological event. Ritual informs not only on myth but actually has a transformative effect on the individual practising it. Basic assumption of western medicine are culturally constructed, and some currents within medical anthropology question those. Biological dysfunction biological event, biomedical professional understanding regardless of cultural recognition. Illness: patient experience of discontinuity in states of being, perceived role performance, lay-person"s understanding of the event. Disease: abnormalities in the function of the body organs and systems, modern biomedical paradigm, concepts used by mds (this includes theoretical understanding in different medical systems)
