ANTH 435 Exam 1 Hopkins TAMU | Actual
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Medical anthropology - ANSW-Study of human health and disease, health-related behavior, and healing
and health care from the perspective of anthropology
Name Debate - ANSW-debate on using medical anthropology instead of an alternative term like health
anthropology
issues:
term medical can be tied to bio medicine and can make it non inclusive. can also think that biomedicine
is better than all of them, establishing a hierarchy.
4 factors that form the biosocial processes of disease - ANSW-1. human biology
2. systems of belief
3. structures of social relationship
4. environmental conditions
The Straits Expedition and W.H.R. Rivers - ANSW-Indigenous Australian peoples
3 british researchers
Diverse data collected
Major findings - ethnomedical practices in preliterate societies constitute internally coherent structures
of cultural beliefs about the cause of healing
W.H.R. Rivers - ANSW-Father of medical anthropology
Incorporated health related issues into anthropology.
Asserted that indigenous healing is characterized by manipulation, though spells and other rituals.
Applied - ANSW-:does our observations change the ones observed? Are we applying what we learned?
Academic - ANSW-ethical dilemma, teaching preferred point of view
5 areas that medical anth is related to - ANSW-1. anth
2. paleopathology
3. public health
4. epidemiology
5. bioethics
Evolutionary and Ecological - ANSW-Evolutionary processes, human genetic variation, and susceptibility
to disease
Evolutionary medicine
Theory of natural selection
Environment
Biotic, abiotic, cultural
Change
Equilibrium
, CRITIQUES:
Adaptation theory
Application of methods derived from studies of animals to humans
Carrying capacity
Genetic determination
Interpretive - ANSW-Core concept: Human cultural/symbolic construction
Diseases are experimental based on cultural constructions
Medical systems are historically and culturally intertwined pragmatic ways of knowing the world
Goal
Analyze all of health as a set of systems for creating, experiencing, and communicating meaning in
human life
CRITIQUES:
Lack of exploration of the philosophical basis of narrative
Lack of referencing to broader literature on narrative
Lack of diversity in narratives of other people's experiences
Critical - ANSW-Core concept: political economy
Origins of dominant cultural constructions in health
Structures of power and inequality in health care systems
Social origins of illness
Goal: Contribute to critical analyses of current health issues
Bicultural - ANSW-Core concept: political ecology of biology and health
Focus on models linking social inequalities to human biology
Goal: identify causes of biological outcomes of social processes
6 elements of research design - ANSW-1. research question
2. research site
3. sampling strategy
4. data collection
5. data management plan
6. data analysis
Cross- sectional - ANSW-data collected during one point in time
Longitudinal design - ANSW-data that pertains to two or more points in time
Case control - ANSW-rare in anth but used by epidemiologists
3 steps in sampling strategy - ANSW-1. defining the population
2. identify the unit of analysis
3. selecting sample based on typed of data to be collected
goal: describe the entire population
study | Questions and verified Answers
Medical anthropology - ANSW-Study of human health and disease, health-related behavior, and healing
and health care from the perspective of anthropology
Name Debate - ANSW-debate on using medical anthropology instead of an alternative term like health
anthropology
issues:
term medical can be tied to bio medicine and can make it non inclusive. can also think that biomedicine
is better than all of them, establishing a hierarchy.
4 factors that form the biosocial processes of disease - ANSW-1. human biology
2. systems of belief
3. structures of social relationship
4. environmental conditions
The Straits Expedition and W.H.R. Rivers - ANSW-Indigenous Australian peoples
3 british researchers
Diverse data collected
Major findings - ethnomedical practices in preliterate societies constitute internally coherent structures
of cultural beliefs about the cause of healing
W.H.R. Rivers - ANSW-Father of medical anthropology
Incorporated health related issues into anthropology.
Asserted that indigenous healing is characterized by manipulation, though spells and other rituals.
Applied - ANSW-:does our observations change the ones observed? Are we applying what we learned?
Academic - ANSW-ethical dilemma, teaching preferred point of view
5 areas that medical anth is related to - ANSW-1. anth
2. paleopathology
3. public health
4. epidemiology
5. bioethics
Evolutionary and Ecological - ANSW-Evolutionary processes, human genetic variation, and susceptibility
to disease
Evolutionary medicine
Theory of natural selection
Environment
Biotic, abiotic, cultural
Change
Equilibrium
, CRITIQUES:
Adaptation theory
Application of methods derived from studies of animals to humans
Carrying capacity
Genetic determination
Interpretive - ANSW-Core concept: Human cultural/symbolic construction
Diseases are experimental based on cultural constructions
Medical systems are historically and culturally intertwined pragmatic ways of knowing the world
Goal
Analyze all of health as a set of systems for creating, experiencing, and communicating meaning in
human life
CRITIQUES:
Lack of exploration of the philosophical basis of narrative
Lack of referencing to broader literature on narrative
Lack of diversity in narratives of other people's experiences
Critical - ANSW-Core concept: political economy
Origins of dominant cultural constructions in health
Structures of power and inequality in health care systems
Social origins of illness
Goal: Contribute to critical analyses of current health issues
Bicultural - ANSW-Core concept: political ecology of biology and health
Focus on models linking social inequalities to human biology
Goal: identify causes of biological outcomes of social processes
6 elements of research design - ANSW-1. research question
2. research site
3. sampling strategy
4. data collection
5. data management plan
6. data analysis
Cross- sectional - ANSW-data collected during one point in time
Longitudinal design - ANSW-data that pertains to two or more points in time
Case control - ANSW-rare in anth but used by epidemiologists
3 steps in sampling strategy - ANSW-1. defining the population
2. identify the unit of analysis
3. selecting sample based on typed of data to be collected
goal: describe the entire population
