ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Longitudinal Study, Weight Watchers, Participaction
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Illness that has been medicalized: addhd (10% us children diagnosed; france less than. 1%; french see it as social problem, psych. in us see it as bio. ) Not helpful to think of every disease as bio. Epistemology - way of u/st the body in purely bio. terms has a theoret. origin; there are limits to this thinking. Cartesian legacy - mind and the body are two separate things; mind located in pituitary gland allowed for autopsies (not a sin) Radical materialism: (autopsies); some med. schools have eliminated anatomy classes so no autopsies e. g. med class: headaches and discussing stress etc; idea that only cause of illness is something inside your body. Science yet to be: new tech may allow us to see things we can"t see now (things we don"t know and won"t know in our lifetime) A lot of pain comes from unknown origin (e. g. fadiman - don"t know what causes epilepsy in.
