HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Traditional Medicine, Derealization, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four
1 Dec 2017
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Mental health and illness; culture, globalization and mental illness. One view says they are universal, the others say they are culturally specific. If these things are universal, you would expect to find them in all culture. Our definition of mental illness speak more towards our society rather than universal. Many criticize models of mental illness (especially the medical model) because they fail to include culture within their list of variables. A person"s symptoms are partially shaped by their behaviour and experience- themselves shaped by culture. Problematically, dsm criteria designed by a very particular subset of the population. Hallucinations in first nation communities vs. non-indigenous (they might no fully view hallucination as deviant) Possession versus psychosis in latin america (religious intervention vs. medical treatment) Expression of illnesses- done in a culturally -accepted way. Depression in west v east asia (looked at people based on their ethnic background)
