Applied Medical Anthropology 11 1-11 6 PDF

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APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Applied medical anthropology = when you are applying the concepts of medical anthropology outside the classroom Field Work = the place you are practicing applied medical anthropology Anthropology = study of humanity, holistic science Applied Anthropology = anthropology outside the classroom Medical anthropology = looks at medical systems across cultures 1. Perceived cause of illness 2. Modes of diagnosis 3. Appropriate therapy for treatment Community Health = health that has to do with the members of your community, education, balanced diet, fresh food, available clinics, do a needs assessment of the health needs of the community and then implement a program that will actually help them and that can be sustained. Health and Well-being = concepts that differ cross-culturally Value of Life = different cross-culturally In the American medical system, there is hierarchy and ranking, in other medical systems, there is an equal ranking of doctors, nurses, surgeons. Social, cultural, biological and linguistics all contribute to medical anthropology. The only one that doesn’t contribute to medical is archeology. Her job in the Andes and the Himalayas was to get Western doctors and Eastern doctors to refer business to each other. The Easterns had no problem with it, but the Western doctors didn’t trust the eastern docs. Medical Anthropologists study issues such as: (don’t have to memorize them all) ● Health ramifications of ecological adaptation and maladaptation ● Popular health culture and and domestics health care practices ● Local interpretations of bodily processes ● Changing body projects and valued body attributes ● Perceptions of risk, vulnerability, and responsibility for illness and health care ● Risk and protective dimensions of human behavior, cultural norms, and social institutions ● Preventative health and harm reduction practices ● The experience of illness and the social relations of sickness ● Commercialization and commodification of health and medicine - going to another more poor/foreign country to get discounts on surgeries ● Disease distribution and health disparity - rich and poor, men and women

● Infrastructure in a country - do they have what they need to take care of their population, you don’t have the expertise, the resources, the accommodations...