PSYC BC 3162x Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: High Standard Manufacturing Company, Arthur Kleinman, Medical Anthropology
25 Nov 2015
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Unbridgeable gap between american doctors and hmong patients? different notions of the self, different notions of healing. These conditions were not met in the case of lia, especially #2 and 3. Even #1 by the middle of the book was compromised neil was just waiting for lia"s big seizure he didn"t even believe in his power to heal her. Different ideas of who is the target of medical intervention american doctors just see lia, but hmong see lia"s connection to spiritual world, soul, etc. Americans think that the more detached and unemotional a doctor is, the more authority they have; some of this authority comes from the fact that doctors" knowledge is based on science, and in our society science is truth (generally) When doctors prescribed all the medicine for lia, they were trying to get her parents to organize their lives around her health. In healing ceremony, whole community is activated to pay attention to your health.
