ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anorexia Nervosa, Ethnomedicine, Sleep Deprivation
10 Jun 2016
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Emphasizes technology in diagnosing and treating health problems. Illness: culturally specific perceptions of a health problem. Bases for classifying health problems: cause, vector, affected body part, and symptoms. Many native elders pass down stories orally that convey messages about prevention, treatment, and classifications of health problems. Culture-specific syndrome: a health problem with a set of symptoms associated with a particular culture. Caused by social factors (stress, fear, shock) Somatization: the process through which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering. Susto: fright/shock disease in spain attributed to traumatic events. Experienced by people with a sense of social role failure (e. g. a woman unable to conceive) Cross-culturally specific causal explanation for health problems and suffering. In some places, ethno-etiologies can be natural, socioeconomic, psychological, or supernatural. Structural suffering: health problems caused by powerful forces such as poverty, war, famine, and forced migration.
