ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnomedicine, Phlegm, Anorexia Nervosa
15 Feb 2018
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Medical anthro: study of human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation. Ethnomedicine: cross-cultural study of sickness, health, and health systems. All cultures have a health system: classification of problems. Disease: biological health problem (e. g. measles, genetic problems) Explanatory models: products of culture for why we get sick. Hippocrates: probably one of more important people for modern medicine. Believed body should be treated as a complex integrated whole. Believed there were 4 humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Used mummification, had superficial understandings of physiology saw the body as a series of tubes, including muscles, nerves, tendons, and that the heart pu(cid:373)ped stuff through the (cid:271)od(cid:455) through these (cid:862)tu(cid:271)es(cid:863)- air, feces, water, etc. (channel. A blockage in this system could result in sickness. All illness came from the same cause: being out of balance with the humours. Went up until 18th or 19th century in europe. Places emphasis on a body in balance.
