ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Twix, Soteriology, Anne Fadiman
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Field report observations care vs. competence: demeanor of the healthcare worker, what exactly upset about your incidence? self-diagnosis, delays between symptoms and going to the hospital. Witnessing medical encounters: can translate words, but harder to translate ideas. Dr"s struggle with competence and care (being sympathetic and knowing their stuff) reading for this week. Recruitment can be hereditary or become evident if someone gets sick or dreams. Who ends up as doctors shapes the patient-healer relationship. Training sometimes considered a witch doctor, but different kinds of knowledge like medical dr"s, it can take 4-8 years to become a healer. Unlike dr"s the training is one-on-one, personal: also, can usually pick their teachers, dr"s have a lot of student-to student training, they help each other a lot (that doesn"t happen in healer settings) Rewarded money: healers charge money and it"s very expensive. Lia gets taken into a foster home (medical authority-coerced: medical gaze regulates behaviour and disciplines people.