Book chapter
Ethnomedicines: Traditions of Medical Knowledge
A Companion to Medical Anthropology, pp.315-341
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2
03/08/2022
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118497
Abstract
This chapter introduces the range of traditional topics that have provided a framework for ethnomedical inquiry. International public health research particularly embraced Arthur Kleinman's ethnomedical principle of the "explanatory model". Across the world, people have different conceptions about the body that anthropologists refer to as body image. "Ethnophysiology" is the type of ethnomedical body image that refers specifically to cultural notions about body structure and function including perceptions of internal organs and their purpose and placement. Ethnopsychiatry is a translational field that examines cultural views on mental illness, and local practices surrounding mental illnesses. In order for individuals to be recognized as ill they must be considered abnormal in the home culture. Cosmopolitan or organic mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, may at first seem unaffected by culture. Medical pluralism exists in many lower‐income countries where traditional popular and folk medicine practiced alongside of biomedicine.
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- Title
- Ethnomedicines: Traditions of Medical Knowledge
- Creators
- Marsha B Quinlan - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department of
- Contributors
- M. Singer (Editor)Pamela I Erickson (Editor)C. E. Abadía-Barrero (Editor)
- Publication Details
- A Companion to Medical Anthropology, pp.315-341
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 26
- Identifiers
- 99900720968701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter