ANTC61H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
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divination to give sense of patient"s conditions. Poeisis intersect of medical, social and spiritual. way you use your own story and get faith in yourself. Therapeutic emplotment physical healing work see the importance of orienting the patient within a particular story. how knowledge is built using our senses. how historically and cross-culturally senses can be elaborated differently drives different forms of medical intervention. dominance of the visual sense in western and eastern. how different understanding of circulatory systems:chinese pulse as naturalistic, tells you about the state of your organs and gender of your fetus. Human beings as bodies and medical cases: training in how to see, speak, write. Organized knowledge to create a particular language authorizes particular roles and gives them power to intervene (social power of medicine) power developed within an institution social recognition. Ontario have controlled acts have potential for harm.
