[ANTHROP 1AA3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (20 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Overview: abstract, intro, conclusion, type of statement. Clarify meaning: define all key terms, operational definitions. Consider results: results & statistical procedures. Consistent, reliable, & probable: is the argument: The study of human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation. Ethnomedicine cross-cultural study of health and health care systems. All cultures have a health system: perceptions and beliefs about the body, classifications of health problems, prevention measures, healing/healers. Illness perceptions and experiences of a health problem. Explanatory models for why we get sick are products of culture. Hippocrates (ancient greek: based the human body as a whole. Based on balance of the humours (4: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile. Channel system: blockage or misdirection of blood, air, feces, & water in the body causes disease. How these travel through the body leads to disease: related to the four humours but caused/lead to different situations. Most sick people excess heat and moisture (fever, sweating, cough)