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23 Cards in this Set
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Ethnomedicine
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The study of cross-cultural health systems.
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Health systems
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Within a culture, the perceptions and classifications of health problems, prevention measures, diagnoses, healing, and healers.
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Western biomedicine (WBM)
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A healing approach baed on modern Western science that emphasizes technology for diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body.
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Disease
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In the disease/illness dichotomy, a biological health problem that is objective and universal.
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Illness
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In the disease/illness dichotomy, culturally specific perceptions and experiences of a health problem.
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Culture-specific syndrome
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A collection of signs and symptoms that is restricted to a particular culture or a limited number o cultures; also called folk illness.
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Somatization
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The process through which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering.
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Ethno-etiologies
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Culturally specific causal explanations for health problems and suffering.
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Structural suffering
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Human health problems caused by such economic and political situations as war, famine, terrorism, forced migration, and poverty. Also called "structural affliction."
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Three Causation for Morbidity and Mortality
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ultimate- Poverty, Intermediate- Lack of food, malnutrition, Immediate- Dehydration, diarrhea
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Structural suffering
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Human health problems caused by such economic and political situations as war, famine, terrorism, forced migration, and poverty. Also called "structural affliction."
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Three Causation for Morbidity and Mortality
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ultimate- Poverty, Intermediate- Lack of food, malnutrition, Immediate- Dehydration, diarrhea
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Community healing
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Healing that emphasizes the social context as a key component and is likely to be carried out within the public domain.
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Humoral healing system
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Healing that emphasizes balance among natural elements within the body.
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Shaman/ Shamanka
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Male or female religious healer who has a direct relationship with the supernaturals.
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Ecological/Epidemiological approach
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An approach within medical anthropology that considers how aspects of the natural environment and social environment interact to cause illness.
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Historical trauma
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The inter-generational transfer of the negative effects of colonialism from parents to children.
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Placebo effect or meaning effect
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In Western science, a positive result from a healing method due to a symbolic or otherwise nonmaterial factor.
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Critical medical anthropology
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An approach involving the analysis of how economic and political structures shape people's health status.
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Medicalization
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Labeling a particular problem as medical and requiring medical treatment when its cause is structural.
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Disease of development
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A health problem caused or increased by economic development activities that affect the environment and people's relationship with it.
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Medical pluralism
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The existence of more than one health system in a culture.
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Applied or clinical medical anthropology
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The application of anthropological knowledge to furthering the goals of health care providers.
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