ANTH 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bipolar Disorder, John Snow, Prevalence
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Look at clusters to show where things are most at risk - then explores why it is. If pursued, why factors should be able to be identified. Can do it w. biomedical disease + sociocultural illness. Largely this discipline takes as a given the biomedical perspective/terms/treatment. The biomedical definitions are being used + theyre fixed - before study is even started, the terminology is already there. Problem: not open to discovering new terms. Cultural validity (3) avoiding category fallacy: diagnostician has just assumed that the disease categories found in their culture is found in all other cultures - the error = this assumption. The tuskeegee experiment (discussed in text): for 40 yrs (1930-40s) several afroamericans part of a study (w. out informed consent) us public health officials wanted to know more about syphilis. Wanted to see if there really is an organic component in every disease.
