ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arthur Kleinman, Talcott Parsons, Medical Anthropology
27 Nov 2017
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Study health (see p. 202) problematic term, disease, illness, sickness and adopt a biocultural approach to health. Ethnomedicine cross cultural study of health and health systems. Illness perceptions and experiences of a health problem - subjective experience. Disease biological health problem; universal (e. g. , measles) Works for who, hospitals to understand patient needs and responses to health issues and he argues that medical doctors often ignore or misunderstand role of culture in shaping illness. Perceptions and beliefs about the body, what causes the body to get ill. Explanatory models for why we get sick are products of culture, hippocrates. 460bc (ancient greek), based on balance of the humours (bodily uid: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile. ** when these get out of balance that is what causes the illness. Most sick people - excess heat & moisture (fever, sweating, cough) Blood-letting restored balance - would go to barber shop for this. Treatment, kill microorganism eliminate disease, battle metaphors(killer t cells)
