SOSC 3921 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Whapmagoostui, Traditional Medicine, Biomedicine
7 Dec 2016
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Mini essay #1: due date pushed back to november 11th, 2016 - rough draft 2 weeks before via email. High park medicine walk: fri. october, 14th 2016 [12pm to 2pm] meet @north entrance park. Handout on class website under handouts, giving examples of apa style and in-text citation. Traditional indigenous approach to heal and health (concepts) Cultural healing system, rooted in the framework of indigenous science. Everything we understand in biomedicine comes from the culture of western science. All healing and all medicine is cultural. Everything in the world is related: everything in the world is connected through a web of relationships to everything else, we have relations of kinship with all the rest of the creation. We are all interconnected jack forbes (quote in slideshow) From an indigenous perspective we are very much dependent on the earth and everything we do to the earth we are doing to ourselves.
