ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brain Death, Animism, Moxibustion
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Mix of short answers, fill in the blanks, mc, matching. Content up until lecture for previous class (1-3) Ways of understanding healing and wellbeing in different cultural contexts (can also be called folk medical systems - controversial) History, environment, belief systems -> framework of culture. Arthur kleinman: explanatory models: explain cause, appropriate treatment, definition of ailment (how it"s understood = in cultural framework. Illness narratives: how they talk about their illness. Ethnographic context of medicine (treating an illness; diagnosis of disease; physical substance for treatment; pharmaceutical; academic discipline; practitioner) Detailed recording, observations; define medical system -> understand what you"re recording with the broader perspective of culture. Cross-cultural comparison: understand full detail -> apply across cultures (complex) Used to inform practice of medicine in different system. Translation -> improve health care delivery and improve medical practice in other systems. History and how it"s integrated into society (i. e. distrust from colonial thinking -> rephrase language in terms the culture will understand)
