HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Health Equity, Spirit Possession, Coronary Artery Disease
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Case studies (helman 2007: cervical cancer in latin america, hepatitis b and cultural practices, coronary heart disease among japanese, aids and sexual practices in brazil. Treatment and diagnosis: variations in surgical rates b/w us, canada, Biomedicine: disease is an objectively defined and discrete biological entity that exists separately from social groups and social contexts; disease as a category in nature, a finite and objective reality discoverable through scientific endeavour . Medical anthropology: disease is culturally defined; there are social origins of both the biomedical conception of disease and the expression of the sicknesses labelled diseases by doctors (singer 2004: 9) (singer 2004: 9) Diseases, as social constructions, change because society changes (singer 2004) Disease as an explanatory modelreflecting a cultural process (singer 2004) Frankenberg (1980: the making of disease, which entails the doctor / health care provider assembling signs and/or symptoms and constructing a biological (or psychiatric) diagnosis (singer 2004)
