APY 413 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Arthur Kleinman, Medical Anthropology, Traditional Medicine
29 Nov 2016
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Why medical anthropology: ancestors , rudolph virchow systemic illness. Interest in how the distribution of health and disease mirrors the distribution of wealth and power in society. Poor don"t get sick because they don"t take care of themselves its because their in an environment where they can"t take care of themselves: whr rivers non-western traditions in the torres straits. 1898 expedition to torres straits between australia and new guinea; didn"t get published until 1910. Anthropologist is always viewing cultural stuff in a holistic attribute. Refuted claims by western practitioners that ethnomedicine practices were meaningless customs. Argues that ideas and practices around health and healing found in preliterate societies constitute internally coherent structures of cultural beliefs about the causes of disease. Generic anthropology medical anthropology; because it was inevitable to take a holistic view of culture without studying health issues. The torres straits expedition produced 6 volumes of ethnographic info on.
