ANT208H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Evolutionary Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Evolutionary Medicine
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Holistic approach, subfields, culture, ethnography, ethnology, emic and etic perspectives, fieldwork, applied anthropology, evolutionary anthropology. Defining health, disease, illness, sickness, suffering, major theoretical approaches, authoritative/authoritarian vs. folk models, medicalization, locus of health, population and individual health, defining death. Common components (healers, diagnoses, etc), healing and sick roles, biomedicine, evidence based medicine, alternative and complementary medicine, medical pluralism, power and healing, placebo, nocebo. Definition of evolution, genes, genotype, phenotype, adaptation, mechanisms of genetic evolution, processes of natural selection (directional, stabilizing, etc), non-adaptive evolution, fitness. Emergence as an interdisciplinary scientific perspective, fitness health and longevity, human evolutionary constraints and tradeoffs (e. g. bipedalism, brain size, etc. ), coevolution (pathogens, human disease ecology, environmental change), levels of explanation, vulnerability, Developmental and later phases of human life course, human life history traits; tradeoffs between growth, reproduction and maintenance; inter- relationship between growth, reproduction, indirect reproduction; alternative life history strategies; early and late life adaptation.
