L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scientific Method, Mental Disorder, Veganism
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People getting healthcare from more than one source at the same time. Most people throughout the world access different modes. Getting info from family, friends, neighbors etc. Self-help groups religious groups, leaders giving counselor advice. Informal nonprofessional: affliction and disability, cancer groups, diagnosing yourself, surfing blogs of affliction runs against idea that medical assistance is only through doctors, hospitals. Traditional healing specialists - shamans, bone setters, herbalists, acupuncturist, massage therapist. Diagnose disease; not constrained to only medical doctors. Going to treat disease that gets at illness. Focus on physiological and spiritual holism and balance. Placebo effect healing due to belief of healing. Life expectancy is much lower than a robust clinical, medical structure. Holistic attention to illness, not just disease. Healing is often set in a social context and involves the resocialization of the afflicted person through rituals. But lack of scientific proof and clinical efficacy of biomedicine
