ANTHRCUL 244 Final Exam Flashcards
Bioethnography
Attemping to combine…ethnographic data with biological data
Biological Citizenship
“biological citizenship”, “ a demand for, but limited access to, a form of social welfare based on medical, scientific, and legal criteria that recognize injury and compensate for it.”
Ex. Chernobyl Explosion
Charismatic
Adjective of “Charisms” - spiritual gifts given by God
Contract Metaphor
Presumes equality, autonomy of the individual, and freely-chosen mutuality.
Cosmology
A way of understanding the makeup, structure, and features of the universe, In this case serves as a way of delineating the realm of the sacred. Can be physical or metaphysical.
Discernment
Divinely heightened intuition
Doula
“birth practitioners without medical responsibility who provide support to birthing people,”
Ex. Attuned Consent
Efficacy
Effectiveness at producing a result
Entanglement Theory
- Relational beingness
- “Entanglement asserts that you cannot divide the epistemological and the ontological, subjects and objects. To be is to be related.”
- The idea that objects cannot be separated from their environments
Environment Health
The risks to and effects on populations exposed to environmental stresses, both as biological organisms and social units.
Environment Racism
The disproportionate exposure of marginalized communities to environmental hazards, the situating of hazards and risks in areas when the majority populations are communities of color.
Gender Affirming Care
Interventions which are designed and intended to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity
Gender Identity
One’s innate, personal sense of gender
Self-identification, internally felt.
This identity may or may not correspond to sex assigned at birth
Gender Variance
An umbrella term for gender identities and expressions, often framed in terms of difference from dominant societal norms.
Genomic Articulation
The use of genetic ancestry/genetic data to identify and define indigenous populations. TallBear argues that to use these technologies is a non-neutral political act.
“Good Death”
- Freedom from avoidable suffering
- Pain-free
- Dignified
- Family or loved ones present or involved
- Religious or spiritual element
- Sanitized, not “messy”
Green Burial
Interring directly without embalming or a nonbiodegradable casket, allowing for decomposition to be unimpeded.
Habitus
A homogenous set of circumstances/conditions which give rise to harmonious practices/behaviors.
Human Composting
Breaking down a dead human body using a compost pile
Indigeneity
A state of being indigenous, a quality of identity linked with continuity in a particular place, shared ancestry, and group belonging. A term that is historically contingent and dynamic.
MAID
Medical-Aid-In-Death
- Authorizes physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill, mentally competent adult patient.
- Criteria in Canada and Vermont includes 18+ years, terminal illness, or serious, incurable illness, give consent
Midwife
A healthcare provider that offers, prenatal, partum, post partum care
Neurasthenia
“A physiological condition caused partly by an impaired nervous system.”
Neurological degeneration which “is manifested as a host of psychic and bodily complaints, including exhaustion, memory loss, sleep disturbance, and various aches and pains, and results from the degeneration of nerve tissue due to overuse.”
Obstetric Racism
Institutional racism in a healthcare context marked by disempowerment, inadequate care, and unwanted interventions during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
