ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Universal, Structural Violence, Ethnomedicine
Document Summary
Most of biomedicine didn"t think of human health problems as having a phylogenetic system o. About beliefs, healers, how power and privilege and power structure and distributions affect health. Documents of relevance of culture and social relations to health and illness o. How illness and disease involve complex biosocial processes. We must not use those complexities as an excuse to not study them. Importance of addressing a range of factors beyond biology o o o. Recognizes fundamental importance of biology and evolutionary ecology. Goes beyond seeing health as primarily a biological condition. Seeks to understand the social origins of disease. Nature of interactions between biology, society and culture. Does not privilege a particular health care system, e. g western biomedicine. Interprets all health care systems as cultural products, independent of efficacy Space (social: cultures + geographic: populations) + time (change: lifetimes, historic, You study and live with another group, doing fieldwork.
