ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biomedicine, Social Constructionism, Discourse Analysis
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Lecture 4 making the familiar strange: local biologies and the social construction of biomedicine. Discern each author"s main and supporting arguments: takes time and effort: no shit. Work with these arguments: do not describe the readings, we have already. Write in concise, focused paragraphs: one main idea per paragraph. Keep your writing grounded in the texts; avoid abstract phrases. Scholarship on social and cultural construction of biomedicine. 3 major contributions of social constructionism to medical anthropology. Socially organized responses to disease that constitute a special cultural system * + of symbolic meanings, anchored in particular arrangements of social institutions and patterns of interpersonal interactions . Wright and treacher (1982): biomedicine a vehicle of legitimizing foreign conquest of foreign bodies. Sounds a lot like definitions of culture. Understanding the construction of biomedical knowledge as a social and cultural process: constructed by culture and society.
