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Nosology Exam #1
Basic Nosology History, Hausa Medicine, Azande Witchcraft and medicine
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
09/28/2015

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Thomas Sydenham
Definition
(1624-1689)
Called the "English Hippocrates" and "Father of English Medicine"
Wrote "Observations of Medicine"
Ideological Contributions: A comprehensive classification of disease can be constructed through observation. Observing patients at bedside is important.
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Giovanni Morgagni
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Italian Anatomist, celebrated as the father of modern anatomical pathology.
Ideological Contributions: Post mortem observation of bodies (dissection) provides knowledge about pathology and cause of death
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Carolus Linneus
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Swedish Botanist who laid the foundations for classification of species.
Ideological contributions: Binomial nomenclature, genus and species definitions, father of modern taxonomy.
Points towards potential for similar classification of pathology.
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Bossier de Savagier
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Text: Nosologia Methodica
Contributions: Produced classification system for disease based on Sydenham's assumptions. Developed ten classes of disease. (Descriptive rather than etiological approach to diagnosis classification)
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Christopher Boorse
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Developed Biostatistical theory of disease.
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Biostatstical Theory of Disease
Definition
• Diseases are value neutral and a diseased state is best explained by what functions are typical for an individual of that species.
o Reference class: a specific group defined (usually by age, sex, and species)
o Normal function: statistically typical distribution
o Disease: type of internal state which is either an impairment of normal functional abilities, below typical efficiency, or a limit on functional ability caused by surroundings
o Health = the absence of disease
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Nosology (Definition)
Definition
The systematic classification of diseases
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Disease (Etymology)
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Dis-ease; lack of comfort
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Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
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Medical text that lists all possible medical procedures. Related to ability to get money from insurance companies for medical procedures. Political economy surrounds what is and isn't included in the text.
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International Classification of Disease (ICD)
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Text that categorizes all possible diseases/maladies that could exist. Includes injuries and types of death (There is a code for suffocating on a sandwich)
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Malady
Definition
present, if and only if, a person has a condition, other than a rational belief or desire, such that they are suffering, or at an increased risk of suffering, an evil (death, pain, disability, loss of freedom or opportunity, loss of pleasure) in the absence of a distinct sustaining cause.
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Health
Definition
Soundness of body, "a state of complete mental, physical, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
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Illness
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The individual presentation of a malady. (Doctors do not encounter diseases, the encounter illnesses in individual patients) More closely associated with appearance and symptoms than etiology.
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Disease
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Underlying individual construct, postulated derangement producing specific symptoms in a patient.
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Disease v. Illness
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An illness is the manifestation of poor health while a disease is the cause of it. disease is a process but illness is not. Disease is more social and general, illness more individual.
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Disease
Definition
Underlying individual construct, postulated derangement producing specific symptoms in a patient.
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Disease v. Illness
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An illness is the manifestation of poor health while a disease is the cause of it. disease is a process but illness is not. Disease is more social and general, illness more individual.
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Metaphysical Presuppositions
Definition
Assume things about the nature of reality
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Epistemological Presuppositions
Definition
Assume things about the process and nature of knowledge and knowledge productions
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Axiological Presuppositions
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Assume things about valuations, including what is valued, how it is valued, and what ascribing value means
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George Engel
Definition
Applies biology to psychosocial environments.
It's necessary to understand broad social phenomena in order to understand how health and disease are dealt with in particular cultures.
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F. Crowpool Taylor
Definition
Wrote: "Illness, Disease, and Morbice"
Key to understanding medical systems is morbidity (The having of an illness). Morbidity is something patients have and non-patients do not have.
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Talcot Parsons
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Wrote about assuming the sick role
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Lester King
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Wrote about the domain of explanation
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Explanus
Definition
That which explains
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Explanadum
Definition
That which needs to be explained
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Manipulans
Definition
That which manipulates
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Manipulandum
Definition
That which needs to be manipulated
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Sarki
Definition
Chief
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Mallam
Definition
Previously meant Islamic scholar, now it's just a polite way of addressing a man.
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Shehu Usman Dan Fodio
Definition
19th century Fulani man. Became a scholar, traveled widely, and stirred up unrest in Hausa cities, causing a domino effect where Fulani rulers were set up as rules over Hausa land but adopted a lot of their customs anyway (analogy made to Norman kings of England)
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Fulani
Definition
Cattle herders of West Africa. Fulani language totally distinct from Hausa language, but Fulani culture similarly effected by Islam.
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Sokoto Caliphate
Definition
The empire set up by the Fulani Kings in Hausa land.
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Maguzawa
Definition
Groups in Hausa land that adhere to pre-Islamic religion. Oppressed by Muslim rulers, later accept assistance from christian missionaries.
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Gida
Definition
Household; basic unit of Hausa society, a man and his wife or wives (and children, etc.) Impoverished people may live in a household as an act of generosity.
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Purdah
Definition
Wife seclusion. Once a woman is married she belongs to the household and can only ever leave with a sanctioned chaperone (and this doesn't happen much). Young girls can go out as much as they like, and so can post-menopausal women. Poor women sometimes have to leave the household to work but it's considered an embarrassment.
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Honeycomb Trade
Definition
Women sell snacks and prepared food by making them inside the household and then giving them to their daughters to sell door to door.
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Lafiya
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From an Arabic loan word. ubiquitous in Hausa language. Generally translated as "health" but really means well being, balance, stability, the proper order of things, etc.
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Lafiyar Jiki
Definition
Bodily Wellness/Health
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'Karfi
Definition
Strength, Vigor, Energy (The motive or force behind Lafiya)
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Ciwo
Definition
Pain
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Sir Karl Popper
Definition
"For something to be scientific it has to be falsifiable"
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WHR Rivers
Definition
Called "The Founder of Medical Anthropology"
Wrote: "Medicine, Magic, and Religion"
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Rivers' 3 Major Categories for illness causation
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Human Agency, Spiritual/Supernatural, Naturally Occurring
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Ciwon Allah
Definition
Diseases of God
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Ciwon Miyagu
Definition
Diseases of Evil
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Hankali
Definition
Judgment, Common Sense
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Hauka
Definition
Madness, lack of Hankali
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The Brain in Hausa Culture
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Seat of a person's senses and logic. "The brain is the person" (However, without the brain a person's body doesn't die, their self is just not there.)
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The Heart in Hausa Culture
Definition
Seat of the emotions and life force. If the heart stops working, the mind AND the body die.
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Jini
Definition
Blood
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The Digestive System in Hausa Culture
Definition
Two Separate Streams: Liquid and solid. Solids go through much as we understand them to, but liquids go through the lungs, liver, etc and keep everything moist before leaving the body as urine.
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Majina
Definition
Phlegm
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Cupping
Definition
Surgical procedure performed by barbers to remove dead blood from the body.
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Shawara
Definition
An Accumulation of dead blood in the body that causes sickness. Any kind of wasting is called Shawara, and many types (including "yellow" shawara) are associated with hepatitis.
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Amosani
Definition
The accumulation of too much cold/phlegm
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Zafi
Definition
Sharp, stinging pain
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Maita
Definition
Witchcraft
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Sammu
Definition
Sorcery
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Dodo
Definition
A particular spirit who lives in the bush. if you can catch him and persuade him to come live with you you will gain great wealth/success, but in return you have to feed him the souls of your friends and relatives.
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Aljannu
Definition
Loan word from Arabic (Jinn), Koranic spiritual beings
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Iskoki
Definition
Indigenous Hausa word for spirits, has to do with wind
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Magani
Definition
Medicine (or really, remedy, it can be used to describe a lot of other things "a blanket is medicine for cold")
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Six Fundamental Presuppositions of Hausa Medical Practice
Definition
1. Allah is the one god, cause of everything that happens.
2. Allah made himself known through prophets, including Mohammed.
3. Subordinate to allah are beings called Aljannu that might have relationships with humans
4. Lafiya depends on an individual's ability to live in balance with surroundings. Sickness is a disruption of that balance.
5. For each illness, Allah has ordained a remedy according to his will.
6. The ingredients of medicines lie in repositories for power in the world (Nature and other things created by god)
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Ikon Allah
Definition
Power of God
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Rokon Allah
Definition
Beseeching God
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Boka
Definition
herbalist
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Paracelsus
Definition
Renaissance chemical therapy for diseases. Doctrine of signatures
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Doctrine of signatures
Definition
For every illness god has created a remedy. if you can read the illness' signature, you can find the remedy
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Ilimi
Definition
Knowledge
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The Number 99
Definition
God is said to have 99 names, herbalists say best medicines have 99 ingredients.
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Zamzam
Definition
Cure-all water from meccah
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Yaji
Definition
Hot spicy substances to ward of cold and create sexual heat
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Daji
Definition
The Bush
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Gari
Definition
The Village
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Daji v. Gari
Definition
The Bush is associated with wilderness, danger, secrets, pagan spirits, and strangeness, while the village is associated with order and civilization, islam, safety, openness, and accessibility
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Tafiyar Ruwa
Definition
Means "going away in the rainy season" and refers to a type of disease children often get in the rainy season that causes them to die (malaria)
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Ja
Definition
Red
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Read (Symbolism)
Definition
The color of blood; life force, power, severity. Red substances are used for disorders of the blood.
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White (Symbolism)
Definition
The color of breastmilk, semen; associated with goodness and fertility; happiness, pleasant disposition, etc; medicines that are made with white substances produce positive effects.
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Nono
Definition
Breastmilk
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Madara
Definition
Fresh Cow's Milk
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Black (Symbolism)
Definition
The color of excrement; death, sorrow, repulsion, evil, darkness; black substances often a part of sorcery or other dark medicines
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Yellows (symbolism)
Definition
Associated with Shawara, yellow medicines used to treat shawara (because of jaundice)
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Manta Uwa
Definition
"Forget your mother" a medicine with attractive properties
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Mai-Magani
Definition
Possessor of medicine (because of, say, a family recipe)
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Mai-Saidon-Magani
Definition
Wholesale Medicine Sellers
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Magori
Definition
Sells prepared medicines, travels village to village, often scammers
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Mallam (medical practitioner)
Definition
Islamic Scholar who gives Koranic charms and verses to heal people
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Wanzami
Definition
Barber
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Barber (duties) (Seven Total)
Definition
Shaves heads of men and boys, cupping, uvulectomy, cutting vagina in obstructed labor, tattooing, circumcision, small pox inoculation (in the past)
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Unguzoma
Definition
Midwife
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Yam Bori
Definition
Children of the Bori (Very similar to Zar spirits we learned about in GCM)
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Kwantacce
Definition
"Laying down" of pregnancy, pregnancy goes dormant and baby ceases to grow. Explanation for infertility.
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Girka
Definition
"Boiling" the Bori initiation ceremony
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Boka
Definition
Consulting herbalist
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Mangu
Definition
Witchcraft
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Soroka
Definition
Oracles
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Benge
Definition
The poison oracle
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Iwa
Definition
The rubbing board oracle
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Dakpa
Definition
The termite oracle
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Mapingo
Definition
The three sticks oracle
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Ngua
Definition
Magic, medicine
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Gbudwe
Definition
King in the region EP stayed in. Was killed by the British. The Azande viewed his rule as a golden age.
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Witchcraft (Hausa v. Azande)
Definition
For the Hausa it is secret and feared, and not really spoken about. For the Azande it's an everyday part of life.
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Kishiya
Definition
Co-wife
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