ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Breast Cancer Awareness, Intercultural Competence, Body Politic
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Cultural competency training was teaching doctors to be aware of other cultures. > but instead, doctors might stat to stereotype patients, based on what their cultural background is. Kleineman (education is the answer: doctors have to be empathic witnesses (the dr just gave the patient the medicine for headache, rather than finding out what was causing the headache, use practical coping method, act as ethnographers. * prof"s friend: the nurse complimented on her english, and someone else also did, even through she was born in the us, but she was south asian. 524 -> both cars and breast cancers have ellaborate semiotic broad interpretation. ; we have social ideas of car deaths being manly, adventurous, masculine (ex. Essentially, cars are carcinogenic and corporate social responsibility is masking that relationship. Those car crashes and breast cancer has elaborate semiotic cultures of interpretation. We have social ideas about car deaths being masculine, exciting, adventurous.
