Chapter 10: Medical Anthroplogy

5. A view of medicine that understands disease as having a unique physical; cause within the body
6. culturally specific approaches to illness, health, and healing found around the world
7. A cultural-bound syndrome in Central and South America, believed to be caused by soul separation, resulting from a sudden or traumatic fright
8. The states of unwellness, or the subjective interpretation of symptoms and suffering
9. A subfield of anthropology that focuses on health. disease and illness, the cultural dimensions of health definitions and experiences, and the cultural construction of medical systems
11. A term applied in biomedical contexts to forms of medical interventions considered outside mainstream scientific practices
13. The study of the incidence, distribution, and spread of disease in a population

1. Medical anthropology focused on the ways inequalities of power, economics, and social structures shape practices and understandings of health and healing
2. Also called folk illness, an affliction suffered by certain groups of people who use specific cultural tools to deal with and explain their symptoms, the suspected causal agents, and preferred treatment
3. A system of categorization, as applied to medical anthropology, the ways conditions, syndromes, or processes are grouped vis-à-vis medical knowledge
4. Medical anthropology specifically applied toward the improvement of health outcomes and practical results
6. An approach to medical anthropology that analyzes how culture and environment interact to create conditions for health and disease
7. Culture conceptions of a condition held by a population
10. An abnormal condition afflicting the body, stemming from a pathogenic cause
12. The process by which a particular physical ailment, experience, or process becomes understood as properly being in the realm of medicine, as it is understood in a particular society