ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Oaxaca City, Biomedical Model, Chiropractic
30 Mar 2015
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The environment interacts with culture to influence the cause and spread of health. Anorexia nervosa results from urbanization, modernization, stressors". Focus on how economic and political factors affect health and access to healing. Economic and political systems create health inequalities. Affliction is more a product of someone"s social position than natural . Western doctor-patient relationships as a form of social control. Poverty is a major cause of suffering death. Western medicine emphasizes technology and is dehumanizing. Fieldwork among poverty-stricken women in a brazilian shantytown starting in. Interested in how women experience illness and death of their infant children. Death without weeping and their biological children becomes routinized and easier to deal with. Scheper-hughes" research disrupts notions of a natural bond between parents. Such bonds are created by cultural forces, without this strong bond, death. All cultures recognize certain people as having special abilities to diagnose and. If so, who occupies the top and bottom of.
