ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Paleopathology
12 Feb 2013
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You are asked to provide suggestions for culturally appropriate medical interventions. Incorporate indigenous/cultural idas about medicine and medical treatment. Implement language-specific doctors, assistants translation (with patient permission) Hire someone with knowledge about the different cultures, about different religions (how that relates to medical treatments) Get more information (e. g. forms) regarding patients" background. Doctors need some background about that patient. Do humans have the same disease now as in the past? (required reading chp. Paleopathology the study of disease and injury in the human skeleton (and sometimes mummies) Some variables that affect the expression of disease. Social conditions (population density, access to medical care, water quality, etc. )
