ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Westernization, Prescription Drug, Biomedicine
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Identification of health is not simply the lack of disease or infirmity, but also attainment of physical, social, and mental well-being. The study of health and illness among human cultures. Medical ecology: the interaction of diseases with their natural environment and human culture. Interpretivist medical anthropology: the ways in which human cultures understand and react to disease and illness. Critical medical anthropology: how systems of health and illness react with social systems of power, texas colonias. Established in the 1950s as temporary housing for migrant mexican workers, brought across illegally to work on american farms. Temp. housing became permanent, migrants become us citizens, housing conditions remain poor. Have high rates of asthma, bronchitis, leprosy, etc. Haiti and hiv: villagers" understanding of hiv/aids--- in relation to other illnesses common to that area, like tuberculosis; also the connection between going to the city to help provide for the families to contracting hiv/aids.
