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Bridging between Theory ("understanding") & Practice ("Application")
Quesalid "did not become a great shaman because he cured his patients; he cured his patients because he had become a great shaman"
Ethnomedicine and Healers
Part 1:
Understanding ("Theory")Medical Anthropology
"That's all well and fine in practice but how does it work out in theory?"
Review
part 1
Evolution
and
Human Biological Variation
Evolution and Human Biological Variation
Stone Agers in the Fast Lane: Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Evolutionary Perspective (Diseases of Civilization)
Fundamentals of Evolutionary Medicine (Relation between Natural Selection only one of several aspects that determine our health. Interactions between biology and culture complicate. Natural selection has imperfect consequences. (Think Fever.)
Skin Deep (Evolution and Race)****
Disease and Dying while Black: How Racism, Not Race, Gets under the Skin (Race as concept)****
Pica: A Biocultural Approach to Curious and Compelling Cravings (Is human behavior adaptive?)
Adaptations to Endemic Malaria in Sardinia (Cultural adaptations to protect against disease.)
History of Health
History of Health
- Evolutionary, Historical, and Political Economic Perspectives on Health and Disease (Longitudinal study on epidemioligic (Disease distribution in populations transitions. Change in health of populations along with changes in how societies are organized.)
Determinants of Health
(Solutions to health problems based in more equitable distribution of adequate food, sanitation, housing, health information, and medical care services.)
Applied Medical Anthropology and the Adverse Health Effects of Climate (Past (10,000 years) and present effects of climate change on health.)
Structural Violence
Structural Violence
+ Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases (The role of poverty and social inequalities in disease ecology.)****
+Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian Shantytown (Child mortality is the result of political economy, not medical technology.)
+"Oaxacans Like to Work Bent Over": The Naturalization of Social Suffering among Berry Farm Workers (Syndemics problematized)****
+Does America Really Want to Solve Its Drug Problem? (Political ecology of a health problem.)****
+Syndemic Suffering: Rethinking Social and Health Problems among Mexican Immigrant Women (Syndemic VIDDA: Violence, Immigration, Depression, Diabetes, Abuse)****
Ethnomedicine and Healers
Disease Etiologies in Non-Western Medical Systems (Naturalistic (BIO) vs. Personalistic ethnomedical) systems.****
The Healing Lessons of Ethnomedicine (CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine.)****
The Sorcerer and His Magic (Quesalid)****
Beyond the Doctor's White Coat: Science, Ritual, and Healing in American Biomedicine (Coat vs. Robe)****
Doctors and Patients: The Role of Clinicians in the Placebo Effect ****
The Nocebo Phenomenon: Concept, Evidence, and Implications for Public Health
Part 1: Continued
Review
part 1 cont.
Learning to Be a Leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness (Response varies)****
Strategic Suffering in the Illness Narratives of Mexican Cancer Patients ("Cancer is a disease that is particularly laden with powerful symbolic meanings; in fact, cancer is regularly used as a metaphor. (Sontag))****
The Meaning and Expereience of Illness
The Damaged Self (The critique of biomedicine to not deal with the "entire self".)****
The Meaning and Experience of Illness
Biomedicine, Technology, and the Body
Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause (What seems to be "objective" is many times culturally constructed.)****
Biomedicine, Technology, and the Body
Religion and Reproductive Technologies (The role of IVF and diverse Islamic interpretations.)****
Spare Parts for Sale: Violence, Exploitation, Suffering
Inventing a New Death and Making It Believable (Cultural construction of death and via evolving definition.)
Culture, Illness, and Mental Health
Do Psychiatric Disorders Differ in Different Cultures? (Cross cultural variations.)
Culture, Illness, and Mental Health
What in the World Is Autism? A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Meaning making.)
I came Back for This? Veterans Living with PTSD (Lack of reintegration regarding mind and society.)
Review
part 2
Working with the Culture of Biomedicine
Cultural Competence and Its Discontents
Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
Health Beliefs and Compliance with Prescribed Medication for Hypertension among Black Women: New Orleans 1985-1986
Syndemics
A Syndemic Approach
Syndemic: A set of linked health problems involving two
or more afflictions, interacting synergistically, and contributing to excess burden of disease in a population. Syndemics occur when health-related problems cluster by person, place, or time. For example, the SAVA syndemic is comprised of substance abuse, violence, and AIDS, three conditions that disproportionately afflict those living in poverty in US cities. To prevent a syndemic, one must prevent or control not only each affliction but also the forces that tie those afflictions together.
the individual body
(genetic makeup, personality, lifestyle, emotions, nutrition, age)
#1
the supernatural and spiritual world
(god, gods, sin, witchcraft, sorcery, soul loss)
#2
the natural world
(environment, climate, toxins, natural disasters, flora and fauna, water)
#3
the social and economic
(poverty, warfare, violence, social support)
#4
Stigma
Society establishes the means of categorizing persons and
the complement of attributes felt to be ordinary and natural
for members of each of these categories...While the stranger is present before us, evidence can arise of his possessing an attribute that makes him different from others...and of a less desirable kind - in the extreme, a person to a tainted, discounted one. Such an attribute is a stigma, especially when its discrediting effect is very extensive; sometimes it is also called a failing, a shortcoming, a handicap
(Goffman)