ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Biomedicine, Lung Cancer, Body Politic
49
ANT100Y1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
49 documents
Document Summary
> looks at mental illness in people in china. > claiming that its not enough to master the relevant biology, especially when treating chronic illness. > due to his efforts, healing (along with curing) has gotten hold in the medical establishment. Critiques: biomedicine isn"t coherent, not is it a truth against folk falsehoods, also, not the only kind of culture clash in medicine, implies that medicine is itself less of a cultural system- unequal treatment of biomedicine as culture. Thibamo: parents have more of the stigma than the children, why 2 parents with the exact same genetic material can have children with a totally different genetic makeup. Different cultures have different understandings of illness. When they mix bodily fluids with different people (cheating with other people), they would have child birth defects. > sociocentric: mixing the social aspects with the biological.
