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Medical Anthropology

Exam II

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Amimism The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
Biomedicine the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice.
Disease A particular quality, habit, or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people.
Efficacy The ability to produce a desired or intended result.
Ethnobotany The scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.
Ethnomedicine health beliefs and practices of indigenous cultural development; not practiced in many of the tenets of modern medicine.
Folk Healing A folk healer is an unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies and even the power of suggestion.
Illness Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind
Medicalization To identify or categorize (a condition or behavior) as being a disorder requiring medical treatment or intervention.
Mind-Body Dualism In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the claim that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.
Medical Pluralism the coexistence of multiple medical traditions, or bodies of practice and thought, within the same society.
Hierarchy of Resorts the conventional pattern of the sequence of different consultations with medical practioners of therapies in an unfolding case
Detached Concern involved with the patient but not excessively so maintaining a distance
Nocebo Effect negative response to expectations
Placebo Effect A beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment
Shamanism a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world
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