ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tooth Pathology, Environmental Degradation, Orthohantavirus
23 Apr 2017
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Ethnomedicine -cross cultural study of health and health systems. Explanatory models for why we get sick. If you had too much or too little of these substances then you might get sick. Balance of these humours related to behavioural characteristics. Violent if you have too much yellow bile etc. Most sick people-excess heat and moisture (fever, sweating, cough) Illness came from being out of humour . Important aspect of latin-american folk medical practice. Focus on diagnosis and getting rid of disease instead of prevention. Illness - perceptions and experiences of a health problem. France . 5% of children; usa 9% of children. Us - biological causes and france - social causes. France- more likely to explore nutritional causes or differences in child rearing. Spain and portugal, central and south america. Soul loss" separation of soul and body. Major css of the west : anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Culturally linked to concern with appearance and body weight.
