ANT 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Political Capital, World Health Organization, Neurosis
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Concepts/terms: albania used to be an italian colony, political capital, interlocutor, monolithic/hegemonic discourse, experiences, etc. as culturally coded , roy vogner, the interpretation of culture, minutia. Paper i. i. ii: more fluid iii. Some room for uncertainty, and room for audience to analyze/create their own understanding. Draws from categories/diagnoses that are already known and adds to them. What is the object of psychiatry: xvii, the hospital was born in order to isolate disease and to observe/study it, psychiatric hospitals as containers of dangerousness and as scientific laboratories, define distinct and discrete categories. Dsm-iv-tr (most recent one is dsm-v-tr: an object that contains many categories, drafted/approved by american psychiatric association, europe uses an entirely different manual known as the icd 10 (international. Classification of diseases), which is approved by who (world health. Organization: dsm, diagnosis disorder neurosis syndrome. There is a political, social, etc. context that assigns meaning to diagnoses, and it varies.