ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arthur Kleinman, Talcott Parsons, Medical Anthropology
17 Dec 2018
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Study health (see p. 202) disease, illness, sickness and adopt a biocultural approach to health. Ethnomedicine: cross cultural study of health and health systems. Perceptions and experiences of a health problem. A social role ie. talcott parsons" sick role - we have expectations of sick people and their needs that are considered socially acceptable . 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. Have different ideas of who are the healing/healers. Explanatory models for why we get sick are products of culture. Most sick people attempt to balance their bodies by themselves through excess heat and moisture (fever, sweating, cough) Bloodletting restored balance- belief that this blood loss would help balance the body. Yellow bile: excessive amounts of this would lead to increased aggression. Black bile: excessive amounts of this leads to lethargism.
