ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Humorism, Microorganism, Diarrhea
7 Sep 2016
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Traditionally a sub eld of cultural anthropology - one of the fastest growing elds. Ethnomedicine cross cultural study of health and health systems. Work in universities, hospitals, multicultural communities or areas with cross- cultural dif culties, development organizations, government organizations. Inuit cultures are rejecting western medical systems, setting up clinics. Perceptions and beliefs about the body - a culture"s beliefs on how diseases are caused in the body, ex. witchcraft, genetic mutations, viruses. Healing/healers - hierarchy (ohip only covers certain doctors) Explanatory models for why we get sick are products of culture. Four humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile. Most sick people - excess heat & moisture (fever, sweating, cough) Miasma: idea that foul air would cause sickness. Body as machine - a problem with one organ will effect the rest. Illness perceptions and experiences of a health problem. Disease biological health problem; universal (e. g. , measles) France 0. 5% of children; usa 9% of children.
