ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Medical Anthropology, Structural Violence, Participant Observation
30 Sep 2020
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Beliefs and practices related to health are part of culture. Ma provides holistic approach to: how diseases are spread, how people make sense of health/ illness, how structures of power impact health/ illness. Anthropological approaches: participant observation/ live among informants for extended period, understand local languages and norms. Define health more than just absence of disease. Health: physical, mental, and social well being. Environment, access to nutrition, housing, education, medical care necessary for optimal health. Violence and poverty jeopardize individual and collective health (structural violence) Co founder of partner in health, a health and social justice"s organization. Educates and provides resources for local doctors and public. 1983: center for disease control lists haitians as a aids risk group and immigrants bringing it to the us. Farmer wanted to verify this and how haitaians were responding to accusation. Ethnocentrism/racism influenced haiti"s reputation more than scientific data. Structural inequality greatly impacts how people experience health/ disease/ illness.
