ANTH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biomedicine, Palliative Care, Ayahuasca
9 Sep 2016
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Healer: a person who is recognized by members of a culture to restore health. Many cultures do not accept the biomedical definition of brain dead and object to various grounds to organ transplant. Presence of multiple healing systems within a culture. Persistence of cultural tradition that predate dominance of biomedicine. Study of indigenous medicines, their use in cultural context, and applications of biomedicine. Amazonian vine that they grew from ceremonial effects that supposed to give them visions. An american filed and got a patent for a certain species, and the tribes rioted. Witchcraft: in search of meaning, healing and blame (margaret buckner) Zande- used to explain why a certain misfortune happens to that person at that specific time. When medicine doesn"t work then it is witchcraft. Just like how western doctors can still believe in god. Us france, great britain, west germany (payer 1996) Medical system philosophy and delivery of care reflects cultural values.
