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23 Cards in this Set
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Structural violence |
Violence that occurs through systemic means and is found in laws and practices |
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Biomedicine |
Looking at illness and disease through biological causes such as germs and viruses |
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Pandemic |
Outbreak of disease that has spread beyond a region, nation or continent. |
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Iatrogenic |
Of or relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment |
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Medical ethics |
The ethical and moral implications of medical work, "First, do no harm" |
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Tuskegee experiments |
A group of African-American men with syphilis that were not told or allowed treatment but were used to study the disease, this went on until the 70s and has raised many ethical questions on the use of humans as test subjects |
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
Death Without Weeping, a critical medical anthropologist |
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Zimbabwe (Healers) |
A community of psychosocial medical practices, includes: herbalists, spirit mediums, faith healers, and traditional birth attendants, organized under ZINATHA |
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International Review Board |
The board that decides whether or not research is ethical and whether or not the documentation is acceptable to correctly inform participants |
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Consent |
Freely given and informed agreement |
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Life world |
Concept emphasizes a state of affairs in which the world is experienced, the world is lived |
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Narrativization |
To communicate (events or experiences) in narrative form, in order to better understand yhem |
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Houngan |
A voodoo priest |
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Manno Surpris |
The first account of AIDS in Do Kay; teacher that was given many responsibilities in the community, taken to a houngan, wife convinced the illness came from other teachers in the community, died amid an herbal treatment |
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Anita |
Moved to the city to escape family and economic issues, married a man with AIDS and so contracted it herself before moving back to Do Kay, worked as a maid intermittently before she was sick and when she was in a remission phase |
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Dieudonne |
Worked in Port-au-Prince, Mme. Son son said his illness was sent by a boy that also wanted to be in charge of the yard, believed himself the victim of someone giving him a makandal (poison or sorcery bundle) |
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Haitian AIDS epidemic |
A spread of AIDS quickly among the people in Haiti, most likely it was started by North Americans that came to Haiti and slept with prostitutes, but Haiti was blamed for bringing it to the U.S. and so economic struggle swept the nation as it was considered diseased |
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Primary Health Care |
Approach to the provision of medical care that gives priority to prevention over curative services, encourages community participation, guarantees equal access, respects local traditions, and incorporates health planning into general social and economic development |
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Political ecology |
Application of evolutionary theory and the concept of adaption in the context of the social and political relations between groups of people |
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Somatic |
Physical or corporeal part of an organism |
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Extrasomatic |
Beyond the physical characteristics of a life form |
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Participant |
Someone who takes part in an event, trial, experiment, etc. |
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Critical interpretive |
Theoretical perspective in Med ANTH that blends the "critical" attention to political-economic structures that affect human health with a "cultural" interpretation of the meanings humans assign to conditions of health and sickness |
