Health Sciences 3071A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Medical Anthropology
17 Dec 2016
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Lecture Nine Health Determinants
What does a medical anthropologist do?
What is Culture?
• The full range of learned human behaviours
• We are disciplined into culture
• Fluid shared way of living life
• Mediating lens
o Ontological and epistemological
• We are multiple
What is Gender?
• A cultural understanding of being male or female
• Differs from sex as a biological definition
• Culture maintains gender norms as invisible
• Agent/subject and social elements
Link and Phelan
• Human differences are distinguished and labeled
o Labeled people are associated with undesirable characteristics
o Labeled people are othered creating an
▪ US and THEM
• Separation
• The stigmatization process is dependant upon social, economic and political
power
• In contexts where stigmatization and violence coexist it has been demonstrated
that the perspective of the victim begins to see oneself as acquiring the labels
applied by the victimizer
• Aboriginal women accounted for 16% of female homicides and 11.3% of missing
women
o They are mostly young
o Two thirds are in BC, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
o 85% were mothers or grandmothers
o aboriginal women and girls are as likely to be killed by an acquaintance or
stranger as the are by an intimate partner
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Document Summary
What is culture: the full range of learned human behaviours, we are disciplined into culture, fluid shared way of living life, mediating lens, ontological and epistemological, we are multiple. What is gender: a cultural understanding of being male or female, differs from sex as a biological definition, culture maintains gender norms as invisible, agent/subject and social elements. Link and phelan: human differences are distinguished and labeled, labeled people are associated with undesirable characteristics, labeled people are othered creating an, us and them, separation, the stigmatization process is dependant upon social, economic and political power.
