ANSC 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: African Trypanosomiasis, Global Health
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Contributions of anthropology to the field of global health. Ethnographic approach emic perspective helps to account for lived experiences and subjectivities that are obscured by students. Helps us to observe everyday struggles in dealing with health problems in different cultural contexts. By looking at health processes as integrated to larger social and political structures, anthropology contributes to underlying structural forces that shape people"s health. Goal objectives, to provide a fair health system for everyone, Quote: our sole legitimacy to speak and our sole claim to be listened to depend on our capacity to contest the untested assumptions, the most insidious being that on which we found our moral certainties (fassin, 2012: 115). Shared ideas and beliefs about healing and well being. An explanatory model of illness, healing practices, meaningful relationships, and language. Geertz a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.
