ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vitamin D Deficiency, Ethnomedicine, Medical Anthropology
25 Nov 2016
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Not one of the trad. " 4 field sub-disciplines. How different people think and behave regarding health, illness and healing. Many different medical systems in the world, and many different beliefs as to why people die or have illnesses. Medical (physical) anthropologist - issues of health amongst different canadians. Studies nutrition via school meals comparative approach: canada, france, japan. Influence of class on nutrition in hamilton: comparing child health by neighbourhood. Diagnosis - how we recognize someone is ill in the first place. Healer and healing (magical, religious, scientific, substances) Healing approach based on modern western science. We rely on blood test, x-rays, cat scans etc. Medical anthropologists study wbm as another" health system. One that is intimately bound to western values. For different cultures what is the nature of knowledge. What is the rationality of belief and justification. A branch of philosophy that iveesitgates the origin, nature, methods and limits the human knowledge.
