HIV in Malawi
HIV in Malawi affects the population a great deal. In 2011 it was estimated 910,000 people of the 1.5 million people living in Malawi were living with HIV (“HIV & AIDS in Malawi”). AIDS is the leading cause of death…
Posts by: Bre
Clinical Medical Anthropology
Though I have a specialization in Global Public Health and Epidemiology, plan on getting my master’s in Public Health and work for Van Buren County Mental Health (a community based health program), Clinical Medical Anthropology is where my future career…
Aging
It is quite clear that American society places medications as a great importance. Through medicalization and biomedicalization of different illnesses, some of which were not even though of to be illnesses long ago, the manufacturing of medications to relieve symptoms…
Mind/Body
The “culture of biomedicine” has quite the wide range of interpretations. Many cultures in western societies give a great deal of authority to biomedicine because of its claims of universality and objectivity. Much of what biomedicine stresses have principles that…
The Benjamins
The episode “The Benjamins” gave an inside look into the life of two brothers living with Autism. We get to see the daily lives of brothers, Brad and Kenny. In this episode we get to learn a little about the…
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes is diagnosed in young adults and children and used to be known as juvenile diabetes. Type 1 diabetes in children and young adults means the body is not producing any insulin. Like Anna in the video, children…
Brain Fag Syndrome in Africa
The article I chose to summarize is called “Brain Fag Syndrome – a myth or a reality”. Brain Fag Syndrome (BFS) is identified in DSM-IV as a cultural bound syndrome. BFS symptoms and complaints consist of those of cognitive impairments,…
“A Doctor for Disease, a Shaman for the Soul”
In this article a new Hmong shaman policy that is operating in Mercy Medical Center in Merced California is discussed. This policy allows Hmong patients to have traditional Hmong shamans come in and preform rituals. The policy was designed to…
Bad Sugar
My score on the Health Equity Quiz was 6/10. The most surprising facts from the quiz was that the U.S. life expectancy only ranks 29th in the world and that our gap in wealth is widening and it is effecting…
Multiple Sclerosis among Caucasians
As we learned in our second lecture this week discrete races do not exists and that race is not a substitute for genetics. In genetic determinism genetic similarities are often misinterpreted to propose they create a biological race. Race…
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