[Anthro 3283] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (84 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Categories in which health is organized and illness is diagnosed. Biomedicine: the type of healing that we seek, dominant in western medicine. Monotheistic, hard (cardio/surgery) and soft (peds/women), science and technology, individualized care, focus on disease pathogenesis and biomechanics, major advances and benefits in many areas, care as commodity. Doctors we don"t focus on/care about garbage collectors, for example. Ex: calling cancer a tumor does it a disservice. We are taught that disease is in the body. Arthritis and anesthesia analogy: anesthesiologist must know about arthritis, anesthesiologist must know about material condition unrelated to operation. Hiv can be constructed as a health problem. Open the terrain of expertise to others, besides doctors. Ancient greece: homo v. hetero: division was irrelevant, lacked concept/experience of division. Foucault resisted the label of homosexual because he found it constraining. Foucault wants to understand how certain sexual behaviors become problems at the moment. History of psychology of attitudes in regard to sexuality .
