ANT358H1 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 2 - Grey literature, NationStates, Johan Galtung
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Lecture 2: structural violence and critical medical anthropology. Early medical anthropology was ahistorical (didn"t talk about inequality, history, etc. ) Doctor-patient relationship: ahistorical assuming that it"s an equal relationship. Ignores that doctor-patient relation is structured by categories: class, gender, etc. Seeks to understand health issues from larger political and economic forces patterning interpersonal relationships, shape social behaviour -> social meaning and condition collective experience (singer) Explores how inequalities are created and maintained power relations. Capitalist world system: capitalism shapes our lives and influences our choices and the choices made available to us. Disease = social product; shaped and reshaped by social processes (given meaning through social life) Social context of biomedicine and politics/history behind it. Health care systems levels: biomedicine = not only medicine system. Sufferer experience: critique that stories and writing were not personal enough in that time. Ethnography and anthropology = interconnected processes (local things are connected to broader world systems and policies being implemented)
