ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Pink Ribbon, Breast Cancer Awareness, Biomedicine
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Next week"s tutorial controversial medical issue and its representations inherit in the media (illness, disease, medical anthro. E. g. uk doctor"s medical license was revoked after performing two amputees to two biid patients. He felt that it was more reasonable to do it in a control hospital environment. Sickness macrosocial/political context in regards to disease scheper-hughes and lock: 3 types of bodies: individual. Social metaphors used by society regarding the issue * reflected to the readings this week. Greg and saha: biomedicine and the concept of cultural medicine. Doctors categorizing = producing stereotypes and more problems by doctors immigrant and minority issues. Tb"s representation fit in the suffering in silence and made in passive = fashionable at the time through the metaphors. Cancer was a death sentence through the military metaphors she used: her experience of having breast cancer = was utterly stigmatized and awful because it was shameful according the society at that time.
