Anthropology 2290F/G Lecture Notes - Harm Reduction, Linguistic Anthropology, Stethoscope

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2290F/G
• Professor: Gerald Mc Kinley

Document Summary

Medical anthropology is defined by the society for medical anthropology as a subfield that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to understand: Those factors which influence health and well-being. The cultural importance and utilization of pluralistic medical systems. Basically medical anthropology is the study of health and well-being and the systems that support them http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wtjujwpn7hs. Some aspects of culture in the video were in the language barriers shown in both the positive and negative example of how patients should be dealt with. In the good example the doctor was friendly and listened to the patient and answered all questions while basically the opposite was done in the poor example with the doctor cutting off the patient and ignoring their questions. Doctors using scientific language indicates their knowledge and role in the medical system and while that knowledge is important it is not necessarily conducive to use the scientific words with patients.