ANTR-3087EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Health Organization, Medical Anthropology, Biomedicine

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13 Mar 2018
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Ethnomedicine: the study of the medical systems or healing practices of a cultural group, the cross-cultural comparison of such systems, and increasingly the study of the multiple use of different medical therapies. Ethnomedicine in medical anthropology: individual experience, discourse, knowledge, practice, meaning, social-political-economic relations of health, ecology of health and illness, interpretation of human suffering and health concerns in space and time. Rivers (1924) medical systems are social institutions and all curing practices are rational based on indigenous disease theories. Until 19th century all medical practice was traditional . 1970s biomedicine emerged as dominant medical system in the west economic and political from its focus excluded of world markets and information systems. Shifting dominance of biomedicine: integration of non-western and traditional healing systems. Departure from historic holistic focus, eg. greco-roman medicine. Biomedical rose to dominance through colonialism, globalization, expansion. Body as physical being: removed the psychological, social, spiritual,

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