ANTH 3330 Lecture Notes - Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
13 Mar 2014
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Different cultural views about health and illness; the reason for the patient"s spinal tumour is attributed instead to a lost soul rather than scientific and observable symptoms and tests. Better communication, understanding, and training in different forms of healing. Understanding rather than just tolerance; mutual respect. Health: complete physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of an individual. Culture: traditions, language, religions, systems of beliefs, foods, stigma, difference, the other Disease: biomedicine, negativity, pathogens, contaminated, virus, chronic vs acute, imbalance. Health care: hospitals, nurses, doctors, systematic, hand of the state (control), health policy, how health is delivered, health care professionals, formal education and training, long-term care, old-age home, entitlement, human rights, money and power (u. s. ) Well-being: feeling health, mind and body feeling healthy together, mental health, spiritual (meditation, yoga), balance, diet and exercise. Healer: alternative medicine, (ayurvedic, acupuncture, folk medicines, sweat lodges), friends and family (social network), positive energy. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual state of being.
