ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biomedicine, Commodification, Syphilis
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Anthropology 227 medical anthropology january 29th, 2013. T. a. (farael) lecture : anthropology and the end of life. *not so much about telling truth vs. lying. *ethical principles of autonomny beneficences, nonmalficense, justice, truth telling (truth at free demand) *it matters both what we say and in what context/which way we say things. Over time death has been perceived differently (family oriented lonely) Lack of rational language to describe pain. Death emerges from within as an inherit dimension of life from its very beginning. Death = shaper of life and the mystery of form of limit. Every time we act or being acted upon there is a change in our mental or physical capacities and an increase or decrease in our capacities to act. Forces of life exclude dying and death. Mortality is ours without asking but immortality is something we have to build ourselves, the social and cultural production of immortal.
