Health Sciences 2700A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biomedical Model, Gender Identity, Body Image
25 Nov 2016
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Critical medical anthropology: health and illness are produced and experienced at three intersecting levels. Canadian and global ethnographic research expertise: marginalized populations. Children and youth, women in sex work, people affected by hiv/aids, urban and reserve. Aboriginal communities, gay men: focus on lived experience of health in broader socio-economic, cultural, and political context. To encourage new ways of thinking about health, childhood, and adolescence. To understand the socio-economic, cultural, scienti c, and political process at play in the construction of these overlapping phenomenon. Its as simple as becoming aware of your here and now: internally and in the external world around you, give you a space in the present moment. We are always in the present moment we just lose track of it sometimes. Week 2: health, childhood and adolescence: the construction of ideas through the example of. Knowledge about health, childhood, and adolescence exist: along a continuum, is culturally constructed, differs substantially by theoretical and methodological orientation.
