The reason the child mortality is high in Nigeria compared to the majority of other countries is due to multiple factors. One of the main reasons is the lack of immunization to diseases that have vaccines developed for them. This…
As someone who may be going into surgery, I feel looking at the clinical area of medical anthropology would help me the most. This is because surgeons, although not usually as much as the average doctor, have to interact with…
The culture of biomedicine refers to how biomedicine is actually a cultural construct. Biomedicine may have been thought to be objective or true (as mentioned in the first lecture this week), but it is susceptible to a variety of outside…
Medications obviously play a vital role in medicalization and biomedicalization. Looking at the example of penicillin in the lecture is just one example of their role in medicalization. As the example showed, penicillin was able to help soldiers that were…
This episode follows three different people that have to deal with diabetes everyday. The first person that the episode shows is Kristyn. She is first shown having to move back into her parents’ house due to having high bills and…
The exact cause of fibromyalgia is unknown, but it can be influenced by things such as genetics, personal lifestyle, physical trauma, etc. There is also a wide range of symptoms that can affect a person that has fibromyalgia. The person…
The article begins by describing how specific cultural beliefs are now being incorporated into medical institutions across the nation to further help people of different cultures be treated more effectively. An example of this includes shamans going through a seven…
The beginning of the article includes some of the history of running amok, or amok, and how it was first noted during the 18th century in Malaysia. It was described as when a person started to kill other people…
By looking at the above image, one can tell that Non-Hispanic Caucasians have one of the highest carrier rates for cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a disease that affects glands that produce mucus or sweat. This ends up happening…
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