ANT102H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Historical Trauma, The Main Point, Medical Anthropology
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In the 1960s, the term first came to use where it only referred to non-western health systems and was synonymous with the now abandoned terms primitive medicine. The early use of the term was ethnocentric. The current meaning of the word encompasses health systems everywhere. Health system: encompasses many areas: perceptions and classifications of health problems, prevention measures, diagnosis, healing (magical, religious, scientific, healing substances), and healers. What is a health system: perceptions of the body, classification, explanations (ethno-etiologies, healing. Western biomedicine (wbm): a healing approach based on modern western science that emphasizes technology for diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body. Western biomedicine is a type of health system. Defining and classifying health problems: no universal set of labels, all health systems label and classify, a first step in ethnomedical research is to learn how people label, categorize, and classify health problems.
