ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Quran, Oaxaca City
7 Apr 2016
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Oaxaca city (city in mexico: ~300,000 people, numerous hospitals and clinics western bio-medical model, latin american descendants, blending of different types of practices. Becomes plural/some services have more authority: family doctors compared to dermatologists, hospital staff is ranked, insurance claims/ohip funding. Medical anthropologists: study culture specific illnesses anorexia, study healers and healing cross culturally the practice is understood as process, study how illness is conceptualized differently in different societies. Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon india (disease that we are immune to) Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon sri lanka: initial rejection by community and peers - outcast because of contagious disease, self-imposed social isolation less hierarchical caste system. Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon usa: hansen"s disease, medical treatment get rid of the pathogen, lepers, after seeking treatment, will often work to educate others about the disease. Sickness is not just an isolated event, nor an unfortunate brush with nature.
