ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Maternal Death, Weaning, Paleopathology

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Health system: perceptions and classifications of health problems, prevention measures, diagnosis, healing and healers. Western biomedicine (wbm): healing approach that emphasizes technology in diagnosing/treating health problems related to human body. Disease: a biological health problem that is objective and universal (ex. Illness: a culturally specific perceptions/experiences of a health problem. Labeling/classify health problems by cause, vector (how it gets to humans), affected body part, symptoms. Western biomedicine: medical experts have to agree how to label/classify health problems according to scientific criteria. One culture will not necessarily recognize a health problem from another. Culture-specific syndrome: health problem with a set of symptoms associated with a particular culture. Somatization: process through which body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering. Susto (latino people): fright/shock disease from losing a loved one or having a terrible accident. Ethno-etiology: cross-culturally specific causal explanation for health problems/suffering.

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