ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Soteriology, Medical Anthropology
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Focus: experience of illness and applied medical anthropology. A patient is a site for a story rather than simply a site for disease. Medical anthropology is not a discipline is not simply a place where medicine and culture meet. The task of medical anthropology is not simply to study different applications of medicine and approaches to diseases. Personhood is the center of medical anthropology. Personhood is a process for describing the ongoing negotiations between the self as the center of the experience. Culture in essence is a collection of implicit or explicit values that underscore our understandings and the way we interpret and engage in life. It"s not possible to step into the same cultural river twice = constantly changing. You can"t measure the speed of an electron and at the same time measure its mass. The act of measurement effects the thing that you are measuring. Examines alternative realities, realities creased by culture, culture creased by you and i.
