ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margie Profet, Reproductive Health, Emera
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All material to end of lecture 6 (reproductive health) Question on quiz: most common type of practitioner = popular practitioner. Terms and concepts list will be posted. Video content may also be on quizzes. Early puberty (biologically mature but not fitting into social category of mature) Based on experiences of adults, not children - disjump. Cross-cultural pattern: children are not kept within particular age cohort (interact with different age group and adults) Norm = closely knit communities -> high level of interaction between different age groups; modern western context = community = school. Different perception of younger kids looking up to older; older kids being disinterested in younger kids. Key difference between men and women"s health = pregnancy. Reproductive health = only thing separating studies of males and females. Most of history of biomedicine: women = defined by reproductive health. Early onset of menarche: earlier, pathological, environmentally linked; potential societal problems (treatment)
