ANTH 380T Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allopathic Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Homeopathy
1 Sep 2016
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Non-linear: not saying it definitely started at some time and definitely ended now. Medicine is not a uniform thing, you can have parts without having the whole o. Could go to the barber-surgeon to get a tumor removed but no pain killer yet. We continue to have novel sciences that are developing new and scientific ideas that do or don"t get into the lessons in medical school. What are the main nodes around which all of the stuff is congealed: medicine is always evolving, disease. What the reality of disease is, how physicians, patients, the public think about the causation of disease. In the present moment we think a lot of about genetic disease. But this isn"t the way disease was always thought about o. As human settlements become more complex, there are more people, domestication of animals, changes in diet and labor; we open ourselves up to new disease.
