ANP 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Snowball Sampling, Sick Role, Biomedicine
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Parsons popularized notion of sick role and social analysis of behaviors. Kleinman sick role (after parsons) biomedicine shares with all ethnomedicines 3 major interrelated cultural meanings: perform acts of healing, providing meaning, and creating classification fro naming culture affects health thru cma, medical ecology, and cultural theories. Sterk bias some prostitutes may have answered diff. with opinion. How did sterk handle challenging field site change sites, take breaks. 6 sterk thems why prostitute became involved and how prostitution vs. drug use identities role of pimps impact of aids violence and aids escape from prostitution. Most obvious theme how they became involved and how. Which theme credits sterks ability to know the data and analyze it with care? escape from prostitution (start to finsih) To produce ethnographic/anthropological knowledge we must have permission from individuals (informed consent) from the institution (institutional research board) ethics are critical.
