ANT360H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Medical Anthropology, Michael Jackson
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* she gives two definition: suffering definition (page 1 of the article) undermines the coherence of self. * it causes internal conflict and discontinuity in one s concept of self. * suffering is social in the other reading: trans personal engagement with pains. It is a sucidal construction that serves a cultural model. * it is a professional discourse, that organizes forms of suffering as bureaucratic categories and object of technical intervention. * there are three main argument of rebbeca seligman. * self is at intersection off mind and body. Healing practises that address both cognitive discursive and embodied aspect of self can be effective. * she uses candomable to explain healing, self and body. * this leads to the holiest view of self in different dimensions. * suffering causes and is caused by disrupted self experience. * suffering in particular is implicated in disruptions of self. * the bodied self is constituted and disrupted by actual biological mechanism.
