ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participant Observation, Social Stigma
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture #3: cultural construction of biomedicine and nature (1980s-1990s) Individual experiences do not re ect the group"s experience. Critical medical anthropology (1980s-present: focuses on the political-economic factors that in uence illness and disease. Vertical reasoning: = combines the full range of casual explanations for a particular health issue. Ex. colon cancer, high african mortality rates: colon cancer social stigma, price, lack of information, differences in medical care, high african mortality rates lack of medical care, distrust, nancial reasons, nutrition problems. Qualitative and quantitative approaches: quantitative ex. surveys, larger sample sizes, statistics. The bigger the sample size, the more reliable the outcome. Does not have to be a large sample size, just the bigger the better: qualitative ex. interviews, usually a smaller sample size, more subjective but also more reliable in a way. Ethnographic methods: direct, rst-hand observation of daily behavior, including participant observation (=observations while immersing yourself within the community, conversations with varying degrees of formality.
