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Health, Techniques of healing, Biocultural, Ethnomedicine, social…
Health
Medical ANTH
A distant sub-specialty within the discipline of anthropology, investigates human health and human care system in comparative perspective, considering a wide range of bio-cultural dynamics that affect the well-being of human populations.
Study the perceived causes of illness as well as the techniques and treatments developed in a society to address health concerns.
The health of individuals and communities is affected by many factors: where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income and education level, and our relationship with friends and family.
Techniques of healing
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Communal healing
An approach to healing that directs the combined efforts of the community towards the treating illness.
Humoral healing
An approach to healing that seeks to treat medical ailment by achieving a balance between the forces of elements of the body.
Placebo effect
A response to treatments that occurs because the person receiving the treatment believes it will work not because the treatment itself is effective.
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Ethnomedicine
Ethno-etiology
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Naturalistic
Diseases are thought to be the result of natural forces such as cold, heat, winds, dampness and above all, by an upset in the balance of the basic body elements
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Personalistic
view disease as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman or supernatural.
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The comparative study of cultural ideas about wellness, illness, and healing.
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Biological technologies
Increased life expectancy rates, lower child mortality rates and are used to intervene in and often cure thousands of disease
Antibiotics, immunizations, reproductive technologies
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