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Medical Anthropology (Dr. Robbins)

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Holistic and comparative study of humankind.:
Anthropology
Anthropology is founded on the idea that to understand ourselves in a complete way we have to ______.
Join separate views into a single framework
Systems of behavior, traditions, and thought that are transmitted through learning:
Culture
The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures:
Ethnography
What is the difference between an emic and an etic perspective?
Emic: Insider view
Etic: Outsider view
Engages in basic research of issues of health, illness, and healing systems across societies and over time:
Medical anthropology
What is the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health?
Health refers not merely to the absence of disease, but to a state of physical, social, and psychological well-being
Cultural understanding of the body:
Ethnophysiology
According to the Aztecs, what were the three central parts of the body?
1) Brain
2) Heart
3) Liver
According to the Aztec belief system, where does one's personality reside?
The heart
According to the Aztec belief system, where does one's vitality, warmth, and growth reside?
The brain
According to the Aztec belief system, where does one's passion reside?
The liver
According to the Bari of Venezuela, how would a couple ensure the most healthy/strong fetus?
The encourage the fetus's growth in the womb, by repeated washings with sperm. (May involve a secondary father to keep up with sperm demand)
What is Cartesian duality?
Concept that the mind and the body are separate
T/F: U.S./Western culture conceptions usually think of the mind and body as one?
False; US/Western culture conceptions typically separate the mind and the body
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