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Dec 6, 2023

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ANTH 147 Guided Reading Questions Fall 2023 Assigned texts: Brown, Peter., R. Barrett, M. Padilla “Medical Anthropology: An Introduction to the Fields,” in Brown, ed. Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology , New York: Mayfield Publishing Company, pp.1-9. Studying all of these questions will prepare you for recitation discussion and future assessments. 1. Brown and co-authors introduce the distinction between sickness, disease, and illness in explaining the topics of medical anthropological inquiry (p.11). Define these three concepts and give 2 examples of each of them from your readings this week. Do you have any experiences in which these different concepts have been salient? 2. A major concern for anthropologists is understanding the cultural patterns that shape a community’s way of life. What are 3 interrelated domains that comprise cultural patterns? Consider the example the authors give about schistosomaisis near Lake Victoria and the Nile. What kinds of questions would an anthropologist ask to study the ways cultural patterns shape this illness experience? 3. Identify the four major premises shared by all 5 approaches in medical anthropology. Then explain how and why medical anthropology analyzes biomedicine as one of many of the world’s ethnomedicines. Do you find this troubling, intriguing, or both? Why or why not?

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