ANTHRO 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Traditional Tibetan Medicine, Ethnomedicine, Biomedicine
Document Summary
Medical anthropology has grown immensely since the 1980s as anthropology"s key research strategies. Extensive fieldwork, extensive participant observation in local communities, and deep immersion in the daily lives of people and their local problems and experiences. Anthropologists use a variety of analytical perspectives to examine wide range of experiences and practices that humans associate with disease, illness, health, well-being, and the body. Use interpretivist approach to study health systems as systems of meaning. Critical medical anthropology explores the impact of inequality on human health in two important ways takes holistic approach to health illness. Considers how economic and political systems, race, class, gender, and sexuality create and perpetuate unequal access to health care. Examine how health systems themselves are systems of power that promote disparities in health by defining who is sick, who gets treated, and how the treatment is provides. Medical ecology: interaction of disease with the natural environment and human culture.
