ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Medical Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
16 Sep 2013
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Different subsistence strategies affects who we mate with, how we eat, how we die. As broaden scope beyond culture, see how medical anthropology connects to other subfields. Cultural anthropology was dominated by clinical medical anthropology and critical anthropology. Clinical medical anthropologists worked within hospitals working as interpreters. Critical medical anthropologists are critiquing medical anthropology too much that they are not useful anymore. Being hypercritical and suggesting medical systems should not exist. Medical anthropologists look at diseases/syndromes that are present in certain cultures/groups. Evolutionary medicine looks at the process of evolution through natural selection. Who we are today is made by a series of selections to environmental changes. Fever is a healthy thing that the body does to kill off germs. Ways in which biological anthropology and cultural anthropology intersect: different ways of looking at the same problem. Taught what illness and disease are and what our behaviours are when we are sick.
