ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arthur Kleinman, Medical Anthropology, Ethnomedicine
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Emily martin is an american medical anthropologist. Looks at health and health care (specialization) Studied college and university first year anatomy and biology textbooks to see how gender is represented to students. Get together the textbooks that were being used in undergraduate programs. Wrote up her results in an article called the egg and the sperm . Martin"s key arguments: gender stereotypes impact everyone (including scientists) and how they think, write, interpret and represent their data, in the process, they often reproduce some problematic stereotypes and/or inaccurate information about reproduction. The egg is known as passive and waiting. Many anthropologist that study illness are medical anthropology. Disease, illness, sickness and adopt a biocultural approach to health. Works for who, hospitals to understand patient needs and responses to health issues and he argues that medical doctors often ignore or misunderstand role of culture in shaping illness. His role is to understand health care through the patients precipitation.
