MHS-1930 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Medical Anthropology, Fifth Doctor, Dental Caries
20 Feb 2017
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Mhs 1930 exam 1 study guide: review the biomedical model of disease. Specialties according to the location of the disease or disease type. Pathogen and pathology are at the center of medical interest. Disease: an objectively measurable pathological condition of the body what the practitioner creates by recasting illness into something more manageable and objective. Tooth decay, measles, or a broken bone. Illness: a feeling of not being normal and healthy a subjective lived experience. Illness may, in fact, be due to a disease (disease-rooted cause) May also be due to a feeling of psychological or spiritual imbalance: differentiate between naturalistic and personalistic approaches to illness. Personalistic explanation: illness is seen as being due to acts / wishes of other people or supernatural beings and forces. Intrusion of foreign objects into the body by supernatural means. Bewitching: be able to discuss lay accounts of health, disease, and illness. Be able to understand the importance of lay accounts.
