5 Approaches to Medical Anthropology
Culture & The Subject
What's So Cultural About Mental Disorders?
Personalistic vs Naturalistic
Facts & Statistics
100
The campaign "Tulip" that helps support those who are suffering from depression in China would be an example of what medical anthropological approach?
What is the Applied Approach?
100
How do we learn to view mental disorders and diseases?
Our culture, social media, the news, our parents, personal experiences, etc.
100
What is socialization?
Engaging into the systems of meanings, practices, and institutions that configure the contexts of everyday life. It is how we become a competent member of society.
100
According to a personalistic view, how would someone explain the cause of lycanthropy?
Intervention of an agent such as sorcerer, spirit, or deity.
100
According to lycanthropy, what is the most common animal people imagine themselves to be?
What is a wolf?
200
Categorizing schizophrenia as an “evolutionary process” would fall under which medical anthropological approach?
What is the biological approach?
200
How do we experience our bodies and schizophrenia? I have a physical body, but I have a soul too. What type of body is this; symbol, individual, or politic?
What is the individual body?
200
How does American society generally view people suffering from schizophrenia?
Society labels them as"crazy." Also, they have a lot of fear and apprehension.
200
According to the naturalistic approach, what role does magic and religion play into the illness of schizophrenia?
Religion and magic is believed to not have caused the schizophrenia, but religion is often used as a facilitator of recovery (praying to God).
200
In what social class is depression more common?
What is the lower class?
300
By examining the relationship between the rate of depression and lower class housing is an example of which approach?
What is the ecological approach?
300
If the government moves to regulate prozac, a common drug to treat depression, what type of body would this be; symbol, individual, or politic?
What is the body politic?
300
What are the different cultural meanings of depression in the United States compared to China?
In China, depression is more boredom, discomfort, or pain rather than sadness. It is morally unacceptable and meaningless compared to the US.
300
I have depression. I believe that I can cure my depression by preventive measures such as participating in certain rituals. What approach is this considered?
What is the personalistic approach?
300
In what country is depression experienced physically rather than psychologically?
What is China?
400
Examining the difference between how China and the US view and treat depression would be an example of what approach?
What is the ethnomedial approach?
400
"China is misunderstanding its people and not viewing them as individuals. They need to care more about what each person is going through. I would hate to live there". What view is this?
What is egocentric?
400
What is Kleinman's first step in his theory of socialization?
What is identify and react?
400
According to the personalistic approach, if I have schizophrenia, am I more concerned about the diagnosis or the treatment?
What is diagnosis?
400
Statistically speaking, do more people that suffer from schizophrenia live on the streets or in nursing homes?
What are nursing homes?
500
Utilizing more alternative approaches to treating lycanthropy instead of lobotomy is an example of what type of approach?
What is the critical approach?
500
What is the effect of medicalization of mental disorders?
We see mental disorders more as biological rather than considering outside factors like our environment. We tend to only focus on science aspect, instead of having a more biopsychosocial approach.
500
How would Sedqwick view the "disease" of lycanthropy?
There are no diseases or illness in nature. Disease, in this case, lycanthropy, is just an event of nature. We simply just attach human, social meanings to diseases.
500
According to the naturalistic approach, if I have depression, what or who is responsible for my disease?
What is myself?
500
What percentage of teenagers that have schizophrenia are at risk of attempting suicide?
What is 50%?
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