COLLAB 2M03 Lecture Notes - Biomedicine, Homeostasis, Sickle-Cell Disease
24 Jun 2013
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Emphasizes the role of biological & behavioural adaptations. Alland jr 1970 plasmodium falciparum the mano & sickle cell. Holocene cultivation cut down forest slash and burn shifting to agriculture. Use land for agriculture and work the land until it can"t grow anything. Move onto the next area and wait for vegetation in old area to begin to grow. Burn new growing vegetation until it"s ash in the soil. This lifestyle causes problems by allowing water to lay stagnant and allowing mosquitoes to feed on the population. Malaria emerges and sickle cell adaptation emerges to fight. Health is a measure of biological & behavioural adaptations singer & As a result of out culture, we respond to sickness in different ways. Disease is not an entity: it is an explanatory model kleinman, 1980. We all learn to see reality in different ways & respond to sets of symbols. Individual actors perform according to a cultural script.
