ANTH 002 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Tutsi, Medical Anthropology, Khanith
7 May 2020
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A disease which is contracted by working in contaminated water is hookworm. In northern thailand, many people believe that sudden death of men is caused by attack of widow ghosts. The ju/"hoansi of the kalahari desert have a healing system that is community-based. The phrase "diseases of development" refers to health problems caused by economic development activities such as dam construction. Ethnomedicine refers to the study of cross-cultural health systems. Xmdrtb is an example of a new strain of an infectious disease. An increasing prevalence of the disease __________ is attributed to the construction of high dams and irrigation in many parts of the world. People in northern thailand hung wooden penises on their houses in order to prevent an attack of ghosts who kill men. Treating the effects of poverty on health with pills is referred to as medicalization. __________ is the poorest country in south america, although it is rich in natural resources.
