ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cytotoxic T Cell, Cold Food Festival, Insomnia
9 Feb 2016
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Ethnomedicine cross-cultural study of health and health the study of human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation traditionally a subdivision of cultural anthropology systems. All cultures have a health system: perceptions and beliefs about the body, classifications of health problems, prevention measures, healing/healers. Illness perceptions and experiences of health problem. Perceptions of illness are associated with culture unlike disease. Important for the medical people to realize why they feel like they are ill. Disease biological health problem; universal (e. g. measles) Physical and biological of the root of that problem: like measles explanatory models culture. Explanatory models are why we get sick are products of. Believed it was present in every person and it was apart of disease, these imbalances could have a serious problem to ones health: 4 humours positive. Blood would tell you if you were passionate and if blood was associated with your humour it considered you more lively. Phlegm would make you sluggish, dull.
