NSC 4312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Medical Anthropology, Samoan Culture, Sweat Lodge
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Different cultures and different people within them go to different places: people who go to their pastor like people in the south. For example grief, there is a defined time and way for grief along with roles people would display: culture and the risk of disease, frequent research on modernization and blood pressure. Focusing on communities that are in the change from traditional to a more modernized community. Bp (blood pressure) is often used b/c easy to measure, somewhat non-invasive (personal) and a good predictor for a variety of chronic health conditions. Know how it is affected by modernization: status inconsistency. Pursuit of a particular lifestyle in the context of low-wages and poorer economic conditions. Culture is defined as that which one must know to function effectively in a given society. But hey were seen differently depending on the time and culture.
