ANTH 341 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Voodoo Death, Nocebo, Assisted Reproductive Technology
15 Nov 2016
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Anthropology 341: study guide for the second mid-term. I will choose two of these questions for the exam: using examples drawn from lecture and readings, describe the concept of cultural bound syndromes. According to kleinman, anxiety is the most common psychiatric condition in the usa, and rates of anxiety in non-western societies are much lower. Culture bound syndromes are mental illnesses in which appear to exist as in specific cultural settings rather than existing globally. Kleinman attributes several factors to why illness such as anxiety may be culture bound. First, his findings showed that the world health organization detected more personality disorders were in western health centers where the concepts of disorders may fit the western prognosis categories better than those of non. It is a relatively new classification, as a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) defi(cid:374)ed as its o(cid:449)(cid:374) disease, rather mixed in with other neurosis.
