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Health
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The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
- health is more than the sum of parts - or absence of a negative
- health is more than the sum of parts - or absence of a negative
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Does health sift with age, sex, status
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Yes
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Hygiea
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goddess of health
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Nosos
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Disease
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Disease
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An addition (of something not good) and affliction
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Health and control
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External (behaviour, social practice, environment) and internal thing ("I can combat this")
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Is health more than wellbeing
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Yes
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Health and Pathology
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- impairment and health
- abilities vs disabilities
- coping vs covering up
- visible vs invisible
- abilities vs disabilities
- coping vs covering up
- visible vs invisible
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Health and society
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- status
- politics
- religion
- environment
- biology >
- culture > biocultural
- politics
- religion
- environment
- biology >
- culture > biocultural
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Is biology and culture connected in health
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Yes
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Health and activities
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- health and behaviour
- health and habit
- health and war
— physical component of war (mechanisms to kill > motivate or create depression)
— wars in society (referred to health as a war in antiquity)
— metaphorical war (ill health as an enemy)
- health and habit
- health and war
— physical component of war (mechanisms to kill > motivate or create depression)
— wars in society (referred to health as a war in antiquity)
— metaphorical war (ill health as an enemy)
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Health as a being
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- personification of health
- cult of health
- characterization of health
- cult of health
- characterization of health
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Health is a __ in a bigger game
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Pawn
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Medical Anthropology
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A specialization in anthropology that brings theoretical and applied approaches from sociocultural and biological anthropology to the study of human health and disease
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What is prioritized in medical history
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Text based subjects
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Why are all connections of medical history maximized
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Lot of work to view other specialities, out of comfort zone
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Is health and medicine linked in medical anthropology
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Yes
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Bioculture
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combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem
- germs: use biology to develop antibodies, prevent over crowding (cultural)
- germs: use biology to develop antibodies, prevent over crowding (cultural)
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Ethnomedicine
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local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values
- use of doctor or shaman or cookery
- use of doctor or shaman or cookery
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Parts of medical anthropology
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- popular sector
— first defence against disease that one does themselves
- professional sector
— sanctioned by culture (doctor)
- folk sector
— non professional (spiritual, secular)
— first defence against disease that one does themselves
- professional sector
— sanctioned by culture (doctor)
- folk sector
— non professional (spiritual, secular)
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Secular
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Non-religious
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Disease
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a scientifically identified health threat caused by a known pathogen
- cultural
- cultural
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Illness
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a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual
- cultural
- cultural
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cultural relativism
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the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
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Disease theories
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- personalistic
— blame illness on agents (ghost, gods, evil spirit)
- naturalistic
— impersonal terms (pathogens, unbalanced fluids)
- emotionalistic
— emotional experience cause disease (SUSTO)
— not a curse
— blame illness on agents (ghost, gods, evil spirit)
- naturalistic
— impersonal terms (pathogens, unbalanced fluids)
- emotionalistic
— emotional experience cause disease (SUSTO)
— not a curse
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How do medical anthropologist decide on a treatment
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Look at how disease got there, thought about
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Components of healing
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- biomedical (western)
— physicians
- holistic and alternative medicine
— ways to put body in balance
- personalistic healing
— shamans
— physicians
- holistic and alternative medicine
— ways to put body in balance
- personalistic healing
— shamans
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traditional medicine
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medical practices, derived from a society's long-established health-related knowledge and beliefs, that are used to maintain or restore well-being
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Natural plant remedies similar to
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Biomedicine compounds
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We're plant remedies used in antiquity
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Yes! Lots
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Social, Economic and political aspects of health
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- industrialized vs non-industrialized
- Stratified vs unstratified
- economic differences and health
- undernutrition and the "thrifty gene"
- Stratified vs unstratified
- economic differences and health
- undernutrition and the "thrifty gene"
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Mental and emotional disorders
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Universal (genetic) and cultural
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