ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Biomedicine, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
Document Summary
With globalization, health problems move around the world and into remote locations and cultures more rapidly than ever before. Perhaps no other aspect of western culture, except for the capitalist market system and the english language has so permeated the rest of the world as western biomedicine. But the cultural flow is not one-way. New contexts for exposure and contagion are created through increased international travel and migration, deforestation, and development projects, among others increased travel and migration have contributed to the spread of hiv/aids and sars. Deforestation is related to higher rates of malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes. Which thrive in pools of stagnant water. Development projects such as constructing dams and clearing forests often create unintended health problems for local problems. Evil eye south and central america and europe. Witigo / windigo north american indigenes. A health problem caused or increased by economic development projects. Refers to the presence of multiple health systems within a society.
