ANTHROP 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Arthur Kleinman, Medical Anthropology, Traditional Knowledge
26 Aug 2016
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Department
Course
Professor
Anthropology 2F03 Lecture
March 15/16
States of Being in Wellness and Illness
Holism
-looking at multiple aspects to determine the context and positioning of any given study
-in the context of medicine:
-the human body as a complex holistic organism
-services that compliment and bring holistic approach to curative and healing
-overarching philosophies on the world stage (WHO)
Positionally
-the notion that requires the Anthropologists position is to be declared
-positions can be the context of time, place of a study
-methods/theories/concepts
-study subjects position in relationship with Anthropologist/Social Scientists position
-position of subjects sick of being watched, and withhold information
Medical Anthropology: an area of anthropological inquiry that focuses on issues of well-bring,
health, illness, and disease as they are situated in their wider cultural context
Traditional knowledge: knowledge that is culturally held and passed on from generation to
generation
Well-being: a state (or role) of general physical and mental comfort and good health; a lack of
illness
Health: a person’s social, psychological, and physical condition
-good health allows an individual to function within his or her society
Illness: a culturally identified state (or role) of general physical and/or mental discomfort; a
personal experience of suffering that prompts the afflicted to seek intervention and that
underlies all culturally defined interventions to alleviate suffering
Disease: a biomedical condition characterized by a harmful biological irregularity in an organism
Integrated Approaches and Holism in Medical Anthropology
-interdisciplinary
-language and labels
-social stigma
-political economy
-global distribution of disease
-impact of global and national policies on illness and disease
-national and global priorities
Arthur Kleinman
-psychiatrist and professor of medical anthropology
-“The illness narratives: suffering, healing and the human condition”
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Document Summary
Looking at multiple aspects to determine the context and positioning of any given study. The human body as a complex holistic organism. Services that compliment and bring holistic approach to curative and healing. Overarching philosophies on the world stage (who) The notion that requires the anthropologists position is to be declared. Positions can be the context of time, place of a study. Study subjects position in relationship with anthropologist/social scientists position. Position of subjects sick of being watched, and withhold information. Medical anthropology: an area of anthropological inquiry that focuses on issues of well-bring, health, illness, and disease as they are situated in their wider cultural context. Traditional knowledge: knowledge that is culturally held and passed on from generation to generation. Well-being: a state (or role) of general physical and mental comfort and good health; a lack of illness. Health: a person"s social, psychological, and physical condition. Good health allows an individual to function within his or her society.
