Anthropology 2290F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Medical Anthropology, Medicalization, Surrogacy

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2290F/G
• Professor: Pamela Block

Document Summary

The routledge handbook of medical anthropology chapter 2: changing childhoods. Anthropology has a long history of neglecting children, both ethnographically and theoretically. focus of study. In this chapter, we concentrate on children/adolescents, and their experiences of sickness, discomfort, disability, vulnerability, and marginality in order to gain insight into how they deal with/experience disease and distress, and how that unfolds in different family/cultural contexts. The emotional investment in children and the commitment to having a family influences why people turn to services and various technologies to ensure conception, safe pregnancy, fetal health, safe childbirth, and secure life outcomes. Common for children and adults to try to manage their own health at home and avoid the physicians if possible. Children with diabetes given a device that measures their blood sugar levels; all they need to do is bring it to checkups. Aim of study is to gain insight into the power and dependency relationships of children, parents, and medical professionals. sugar levels;