HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stamen, Biomedicine
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Study of all aspects of society from a cross-cultural perspective. Historically focused on the cultures of exotic others ; now equal interested in western culture. Sub-discipline of social anther; considers biological and cultural factors. Concerned w experiences and practices of health, illness and healing in diff cultural context. Examines health-related beliefs, knowl, and practices of cultural groups. (gillet) learned, shared, and transmiaed behaviours that in uence members of a given (culture-sharing group). Warwick-booth: collecpve beliefs, assumppons, and values communicated between people in a society. Systems of meaning & symbols that shape the way people view and de ne the social world; related to societal rules. An inherited lens through which people perceive and understand the world; helps us to understand the world. Shapes our perceppons of health, illness, and health care; how we (are expected to) behave when we are ill; and, the way we conceive of illness.
