ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Structural Violence, Community Health Worker
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Ant369 february 2nd, 2014 (catching up on last week"s class as well) Study of disease, health problems, health care systems, and theories about illness in different. Illness: a condition of poor health and health perceived or felt by an individual or community. Being sick, usually more than one symptom and usually more than one cause. Anthropology looks at the complexity involves, not to reduce health/illness to just a "symptom" or "a bacteria". Every society has to deal with the sick. Personalistic disease theories: illness caused by agents such as sorcerers, witches, ghosts, or ancestral spirits (example, the "evil eye") Emotionalistic disease theories: illness caused by emotional experiences (examples, trauma, witnessing the loss of a loved one) psychological characteristics: depression, no energy. These theories more often than not entail the idea that what causes this is soul loss. Some part of the soul or the entire soul goes astray and there"s an imbalance in the life.
