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what is ethnobotany
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the practice or study of using plants, very vast in different cultures.
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what are some examples of ethnobotany
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chinchona - remedy that fights malaria, coca - mild anaesthetic and hunger suppressant plus pain relief, pineapple - reduces inflammation in wounds, can break down blood clots
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what are culture-bound syndromes?
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a esries of symptoms recognized to be a specific disorder only within a culture or small set of cultures. it is something the culture accepts as real, widely recognized, but should not be widely recognized outside that culture, and it is treated within the local ethnomedicine. it should not correspond to objectively measurable abnormalities, and it reflects unresolved tensions in a culture. examples kuru, PMS, SUNDS
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radical relativist versus comparativist perspectives on CBS
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relativists think everything is a CBS, while comparatavists think they are all regional versions of the same thing
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Ethnomedicine
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is the study of particular medical systems
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what are the two wings of critical medical anthropology?
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the political economy of health, and the construction of medical knowledge
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what is the political economy of health approach to CMA?
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AIDS + Accusation, the study of the individual's body, the social body, and the body politic. define them
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in the political economy of health, what is the individual body?
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what we normally think of in biomedicine
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in the political economy of health, what is the social body?
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relationships between bodies and within bodies, ways of understanding the individual body mirror understandings of the social body. tensions in the social body impact the individual body
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in the political economy of health, what is the body politic?
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the individual body as a metaphor for the political body. ex: quarantines, schiavo, etc. sleeper cells, crime epidemics, etc
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what is medicalization?
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the process by which the illness dimensions of human distress are made individual and biological rather than collectivized. when things that aren't traditionally medical problems become medical problems, like the movement from birth being handled by midwives to being handled by doctors
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in CMA, what is meant by the construction of medical knowledge?
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it reflects and shapes the public discourse (textbooks, etc) and society.
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what are the three bodies?
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individual, social, body politic
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what is medicine as a form of social control?
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medicalization, using sickness/health/ new diseases like ADHD, etc to control the population
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what are some ways that CBSs reflect the societies in which they occur?
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they reflect on the society's values, morals, and ways of dealing with problems (faith, medicine, etc)
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what are some factors that make illness categories such as depression/susto difficult to compare cross culturally?
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it is difficult to compare because they may exhibit some symptoms missing in the other culture, may deal with it in different ways, or interpret it in different ways that end up making it difficult to evaluate from a purely scientific method. it is holistic, and many things come into play
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discuss similarities and differences in how healers are trained, regarded, and compensated
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generally healers are highly trained, though whether they become healers voluntarily or are "chosen" differs. they are usually highly regarded, and compensated, some discretely and some overtly. it also depends on what kind of healing, biomedicine uses science, while faith healing uses gods
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argue against medical science being value free and completely objective
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it comes back to the body politic, drapetomania for example is not at all scientific, but believed to be true because of social tensions
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what is the social epidemiology?
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study of factors affecting health/illness in populations
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