ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical Anthropology, Tourniquet, Cultural Anthropology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Mainly part of cultural anthropology but can be a part of others as well. Can look at old civilizations or new and contemporary ones. Major issue is the study of medicine or ethno medicine in a culture"s health system. Illness is a feeling of not being healthy or normal. Could be psychological or spiritual imbalance (strongly linked to culture) Disease is something that can be found as a health problem. Hippocrates fits well in today"s medical thinking. Believed that the four waters/humors were a large part of a person"s feelings: phlegm: sluggish, blood: passionate and positive, yellow bile: irritable, black bile: melancholic and depressed. Medical anthropology: substances through (water, blood, air, feces, etc. ) make someone unwell. Body is filled with tubes, which the heart pumped multiple. Based on a channel system of health. You are what you eat and drink. You could tell by someone"s complexion what humor was dominant.