ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Liminality, Genetic Testing, Field Report
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Many ppl gave definition, but didn"t answer why distinguishing between the 2 forms is important. Distinguishing is important because: dr. "s treating disease only will not succeed, missing social factors (depoliticizes disease), many disease have no cure. Use only one of the readings from class. 3-4 pgs, double spaced take raw data and turn it into analyzed workinterpret your field notes. Be very explicit about what you are doing and what you are analyzing. Why do identical twins have such different lives? twins do not die of the same diseases and don"t have the same health problems. Margaret locke: developed idea of local biologies. Most people don"t notice the difference in their bodies until they get sick. Biological and social processes are inseparably entangled over time it"s not about measuring biological differences between people or groups of people. Biomedicine"s search for a universal solution to disease may be problematic (universality is a problem for the subjective and biological experience of illness)
