ANTC61H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
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biomedical practitioners and models in a social and political framework. Placebo as non-specific healing effects systematically de-valued. Not easily explicable in the organic model of disease, therefore distrusted. Standard needed to be efficacious, negative value attributed to placebo, because what we can"t control is thrown out, disregarded in the model of knowledge in bioscience. Idea they deceive, but sophisticated and successful in placebo effects. When they work well, help people see illness experience in a different way and perhaps experience in different mental states and mobilize their views. Performatives (speech act) - illocutionary effect (formal word of performative act) Effectiveness of ritual (set up and performed in appropriate ways) In a structure of a myth or healing ritual. mental and emotional trauma have meaning based on occurrence, historical culture. Follows laws and processes not clear, but the forms of myths and stories and rituals address structures of the psyche.