ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethnomedicine, Menopause, Medicalization
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Covers chapters 1 through 8, bit of chapter 10 (see syllabus), ongka"s big moka, potlatch film. Health system how we think about the body (what a healthy body is, organ functions, mind vs body, etc) how we classify/explain illness (no universal labels) how we heal illness. Illness: how a culture perceives an illness/how they experience it. For example: menopause is not experienced in all cultures. Culture-specific syndromes (css) health problems associated with specific cultures social factors, biophysical symptoms, can be fatal see textbook for examples. Major example in america is anorexia/bulimia difficult to cure medically, no biological explanation, cultural link. Ethno-etiologies: cross-cultural explanations for cause of health/suffering can focus on various factors (natural, structural, psychological, supernatural) structural: caused by war, famine, migration, poverty, etc. Community: group energy is key to cure, informal, open access. Globalization and change all aspects of health systems change and evolve new infectious diseases, diseases of development .
