Anth 111 - Chapter 13- Disease, Illness, And Healing

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Ethnomedicine

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The study of cross-cultural health systems.

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Health systems

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Within a culture, the perceptions and classifications of health problems, prevention measures, diagnoses, healing, and healers.

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Western biomedicine (WBM)

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A healing approach baed on modern Western science that emphasizes technology for diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body.

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Disease

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In the disease/illness dichotomy, a biological health problem that is objective and universal.

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Illness

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In the disease/illness dichotomy, culturally specific perceptions and experiences of a health problem.

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Culture-specific syndrome

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A collection of signs and symptoms that is restricted to a particular culture or a limited number o cultures; also called folk illness.

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Somatization

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The process through which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering.

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Ethno-etiologies

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Culturally specific causal explanations for health problems and suffering.

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Structural suffering

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Human health problems caused by such economic and political situations as war, famine, terrorism, forced migration, and poverty. Also called "structural affliction."

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Three Causation for Morbidity and Mortality

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ultimate- Poverty, Intermediate- Lack of food, malnutrition, Immediate- Dehydration, diarrhea

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Structural suffering

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Human health problems caused by such economic and political situations as war, famine, terrorism, forced migration, and poverty. Also called "structural affliction."

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Three Causation for Morbidity and Mortality

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ultimate- Poverty, Intermediate- Lack of food, malnutrition, Immediate- Dehydration, diarrhea

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Community healing

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Healing that emphasizes the social context as a key component and is likely to be carried out within the public domain.

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Humoral healing system

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Healing that emphasizes balance among natural elements within the body.

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Shaman/ Shamanka

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Male or female religious healer who has a direct relationship with the supernaturals.

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Ecological/Epidemiological approach

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An approach within medical anthropology that considers how aspects of the natural environment and social environment interact to cause illness.

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Historical trauma

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The inter-generational transfer of the negative effects of colonialism from parents to children.

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Placebo effect or meaning effect

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In Western science, a positive result from a healing method due to a symbolic or otherwise nonmaterial factor.

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Critical medical anthropology

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An approach involving the analysis of how economic and political structures shape people's health status.

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Medicalization

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Labeling a particular problem as medical and requiring medical treatment when its cause is structural.

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Disease of development

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A health problem caused or increased by economic development activities that affect the environment and people's relationship with it.

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Medical pluralism

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The existence of more than one health system in a culture.

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Applied or clinical medical anthropology

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The application of anthropological knowledge to furthering the goals of health care providers.