Med anthro

2. This specific subfield of medical anthropology emerged in the 1980s and focuses on structure, power, and inequality in health care systems.
6. A physiological alteration that impairs function; the organic manifestation of a pathological abnormality.
8. Defined by Quinlan as a person's "culture of medicine," including beliefs about the body, illness causation, and societal norms for seeking help.
11. A social category taking place in a specific time and place that defines who is "unwell" and the implications of that label.
12. POLITIC One of the three distinct perspectives on the body (along with Individual and Social) described by Scheper-Hughes and Lock, referring to how political forces control bodies,.
13. The ______ approach considers the interaction of social, ecological, and biological aspects of health; "biology shapes culture and culture shapes biology"
14. Arthur Kleinman’s framework suggesting illness has multiple descriptions (popular, professional, folk) is called _______ Models.
15. ______ Violence refers to social structures or institutions that systematically prevent people from meeting their basic needs (e.g., racism, poverty).

1. PLURALISM A term describing the use of multiple healing systems (e.g., using both biomedicine and traditional healers) for treatment.
3. According to Wiley & Allen, this is the subjective experience of symptoms and suffering, distinct from the biological reality of pathology.
4. A specific protein/enzyme whose persistence in some human populations illustrates how cultural practices (like pastoralism) can shape biology,.
5. The "sick _____" refers to the social expectations, legitimation, and potential stigma associated with being defined as unwell.
7. A pollutant found in human placentas and deep oceans, used in the text to illustrate the link between cultural production and biological health,.
9. ECOLOGY A theoretical approach that focuses on the environmental context of health (physical, built, and sociocultural) to understand how communities interact with their surroundings.
10. A research method involving the measurement of human body dimensions (height, weight) to track growth and development,.