ANTHRO 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Middle-Earth Animals, Islamic Fundamentalism, Univers
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Medical anthropology: the study of health, illness, and healing in cultural perspective. Definition: the healing system of an ethnic or cultural group, including philosophies, beliefs, and practices relevant to health, illness, and healing. Term often used especially to describe healing systems in small-scale indigenous societies. Studies by cultural anthropologists for 100 years, especially as beliefs or practices are related to religious beliefs, rituals, ceremonies. A related term, folk medicine, often applied to popular or home-based healing systems of belief and practice by early anthropologists and folklorists, especially when describing european and european settler populations. Term also used by medical practitioners, public to describe home remedies and the theories behind them in the us, europe, other developed countries. A synonym for ethnomedicine, often used by anthropologists (and medical practitioners, public) to reer to indigenous or folk medical beliefs and practices. Especially applied to elaborated or codified medical systems such as those found in.
