[ANTHROP 1AA3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (70 pages long)

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

Document Summary

What is a health system: all cultures have a health system, perceptions and beliefs about the body, classifications of health problems. Illness and disease: illness - perceptions and experiences of a health problem, pain, and general unwellness, disease - a biological health problem, it"s universal, like measles, or a broken bone. Blood letting: most sick people had too much heat and moisture (fever, sweating, blood letting believed to restore balance, still used to some extent, where the red and white barber pole comes from. Hot-cold theory of disease: important aspect of latin-american folk medical practices, emphasis on body imbalance, focus on hot and cold and food and drink and environment. Germ theory: microscope innovations, the idea that each disease is caused by a specific microorganism, disease caused by damage to tissues. Ecological/epidemiological approach: environment interacts with culture to influence the spread of health problems, environment interacts with culture to influence the spread of health problems.