AN 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Human Experience, Biological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
14 Mar 2018
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10/19/16 5:54 pm: culture: actions, behaviors, practices, institutions, material conditions, sickness: all unwanted variations in all social, physical, and psychological dimensions of health. Unwanted conditions of self, or substantial threats of unwanted conditions of self. Illness: the human experience and perceptions of alteration in health as informed from its broader, social, and cultural dimensions: people may have illness without disease (and vice versa) if you have a disease you have a sickness. Homosexuality was considered an illness, but were not actually diseased they can be ill without having a disease: disease: clinical phenomenon manifestation of outward physical function or infection. Defines by the pathophysiology of certain tissues within the human organism. Facts are important, but being subjective ie. what they think about it or how they feel: cultural evolutionary thinking: our idea on how we see the world is natural .
