ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Medical Anthropology, Organ Donation, Brooksville, Florida
29 Aug 2020
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Enculturation: dependence training vs independence training. Chapter 15: structural violence, medical anthropology. People are part of a larger whole. Conforming to the will of the group. Most common in extended families and subsistence farming economies. Common in trading-based and industrial societies (such as north america) John bowlby, 1951: the infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his mother (or permanent mother substitute in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment . Lack of this bonding can have significant, irreversible mental health consequences. What is structural violence: physical and psychological harm that results from exploitive and unjust social, political and economic systems. (r. gilman 1997, poverty is the worst form of violence (mahatma gandhi) Nutrition and low-income families (what foods are available?) Structural violence is written off as the way the world works or that"s just the way things are today .
