Community Health
I’d say the intersection of anthropology that most interests me would have to be community health. I like the idea of being close and intertwined with an aspect or area of the community in which I feel comfortable and close…
Posts by: saracina
HIV in Malawi
The global health problem I will be focusing on is the HIV epidemic in Malawi. According to the article that I will be citing from, sixty four percent of the people in the world living with HIV reside on the…
“I’m addicted to heroin”
I chose the video: I’m addicted to Heroin, because addiction is an illness. It is sometimes hard for those without addiction to understand, because it is a mental process, and it appears to be a choice to people. Becoming clean…
Fibromyalgia
I have chosen to reflect on the illness “fibromyalgia” and how our culture can influence this in a way that is negative when it comes to treatment. After reading the article that was written about a woman who is suffering…
Clown Doctors in NYC
Clown Doctors in NYC was basically a way to look at an alternative therapy that is occurring here in the United States, that is related to a universal form of healing, as we see in Shamanism. The Clown Doctors use…
Binge-Eating Disorder in the United States
Binge-Eating Disorder is one that has become an eating disorder that can be fit in to the category “eating disorders not otherwise specified”, but is growing increasingly important as we see the correlation that BED has with obesity in the…
