ANTH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Medical Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine
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Textbook source: cultural anthropolog y: global forces, lo cal lives 3rd. Biocultural model of the body: biocultural = complex intersections of biological, psychological, and cultural processes, biology has an important role, but so does culture. Medical anthropology and the body: health and human well-being, distribution and treatment patterns of disease, cultural constructions of illness and healing. Linking medicine and culture: all cultural groups = set of beliefs, patterns of thought, perceptions to conceptualize disease, cultural relativism. Linking medicine, the body and culture: responses to illness and disease, resources, religion, political systems, social norms, ethnomedicine: the study of folk and traditional medical systems/knowledge, biomedicine: views disease as having unique physical cause. "western" medicine: ethnobotany: cultural knowledge about, and use of, medicinal properties of plants. Paul farmer and "structural violence: violence exerted systematically and indirectly by most of the social order.
