ANT100Y1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Quest for Therapy-Medical Pluralism - September 26.docx
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Lecture 3 - quest for therapy: health care systems, medical pluralism and critiques. Subjectivity: internal processes of self-understanding, self-identity, one"s place in the world, etc. Subject position: how one"s place in the world is ascribed by extra social forces (historical, cultural, political, etc. ) Themes in contemporary literature: biomedical dominance/hegemony; immigrant health-seeking. Cultivating respectful curiousity toward unfamiliar medical systems. Conflicting dichotomy: biomedicine is still a cultural, traditional system so referring to. Instead attend to historical dynamism and political-economy of medical systems. Neglect of nonmedical significance of medical traditions . Not sufficient to analyse medical pluralism as simply a hierarchy of resort . Medical treatment-seeking restructures social relations outside the medical context . Biomedicine displaces and alters indigenous medical systems, but not always in predictable or stable ways. Relationship is modulated by many local and translocal actors, including state health care systems and multilateral agencies.
