ANTH C8

Human Mind

The emergent qualities of consciousness and intellect that manifests themselves through thought, emotion, perception, will, and imagination

Culture bound Syndrome

Mental illness unique to a culture

Sick Role

Culturally defined agreement between patients and family members to acknowledge the patient is legit sick

Disease (In Diseases-illness distinction)

Doctors focus on physiological condition

Illness (in Diseases-illness distinction)

Patients focus on their actual experience of disease

Explanatory Models of Illness

Explanations for what is happening to the patients body

Medicalization

The process of viewing or treating as a medical condition that were not yet previously understood as medical problems

Clinical-Therapeutic process

Involves a doctor observing a patient’s symptoms and prescribing a specific treatment, like drugs ig

Symbolic therapeutic process

Virtue of role in structuring the meanings of symbols used. Symbols can come from number of sources: Invoking olfactory senses, sense of touch, taste, chanting, drumming, singing, ect

Social Support Therapeutic process

Patients social networks, which surround patient

Placebo Effect

given non-medicine as if it were medicine

Medical Pluralism

Coexistence and interpretation of distant medical traditions with diff cultural roots