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GH Frameworks- Social Sciences
Cultural Determinants (T Pierce)
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Health Care
Graduate
10/25/2010

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Term
four fields of anthropology
Definition
  • biological
  • archeology
  • linguistic
  • cultural
Term
definition of anthropology
Definition
  • study of humanity
    • its past and present
    • its unity and diversity
    • and its future
Term
biological anthropology
Definition
  • subspecialties
    • contemporary human variation
    • primatology
    • forensic anthropology
  • examples
    • hereditary/developmental conditions
Term
archaeology
Definition
  • paleopathology- study of diseases of the past linked with human evolution
  • prehistoric medical treatment
Term
linguistic anthropology
Definition
  • languages of past
  • communication in contemporary society: "discourse"
  • media and new technologies, internet
  • examples- doctor-patient communication
Term
cultural anthropology (definition, domains)
Definition
  • study of contemporary people's culture
  • a lot of culture is related to health
  • domains
    • economic systems
    • repro
    • growth and development, personality
    • family
    • social groups beyond the family
    • politics and law
    • religion
    • communication
    • expressive culture
    • migration
    • international development and change
Term
important principles of cultural anthropology
Definition
  • cultural relativism
  • participant observation
  • insiders views are real, valid, and important
Term
ethnomedicine
Definition
  • cultural part of medical anthropology
    • medical anthropology crosses all four fields of anthropology
  • definition- study of cross cultural health systems
Term
cross cultural health systems principles
Definition
  • perceptions of the body
  • categories of affliction
  • means of prevention
  • diagnosis
  • healing modalities and healers
  • healin substances
  • change in all the above
Term
Describe perceptions of the body in medical anthropology
Definition
  • their role in causing illness
  • what they have to do with life and death
Term
gotai
Definition
  • example of perception of the body
  • important Japaness value about the intact body
  • related to lower surgery rates and ear piercing than in the US
Term
Importance of the concept of the body as an unbounded unit
Definition
  • in some cultures, the body is viewed as socially connect = "the social body"
  • implications for treatment
Term
ethnonosology
Definition
  • reflects categories of affliction
  • cross cultrual lables for health problems
  • cross cultural disease categories dont always match US labels and definition
Term
Examples of culture specific syndromes (CSS's)
Definition
  • amok- violent outburst (SE Asia)
  • hikkomori- acute social withdrawal (Japanese young men)
  • mal de ojo- fitful sleep, fever, vomitting (Mediterranean, Latin America)
  • windigo- depression, nausea, muderous impulses, Native North America
Term
globalization and CSS's
Definition
  • anorexia nervosa
  • bulimia
  • obesity
  • stress
  • susto
Term
means of prevention
Definition
  • food taboos during pregnancy
  • ritual practices
  • scarin away bad spirits and influences
    • ex: phil mae maal in northern Thailand
Term
diagnosis in medical anthropology
Definition
  • techniques in finding out what is wrong
  • preferred diagnostic techniques vary cross culturally
  • heavy reliance on technology in WBM; a globalization tendency
Term
divination
Definition
  • seeking to know what the supernaturals are up to
    • ex: reading entrails and other signs
Term
healing modalities and healers
Definition
  • community healing
  • humoral healing
  • Western biomedicine
Term
humoral healing
Definition
  • preception of healthy body as having a balance among various humors
  • lables for illness, foods, and activities as heating or cooling
  • adjust consumption and activites to maintain or regain balance
  • specialists are involved in prescribing treatment, herbs
Term
compare western biomedicine (WBM) with a variety of healers in world
Definition
  • WBM
    • search for problem in the body
    • fix it through chemicals or surgery
    • specialized knowledge of many levels of professionals
  • varieties of healers
    • everyone
    • shamans, bonesetters, herbalists
    • highly trained professionals with specializations
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