Chapter 16 Vocab Flashcards
How does the textbook define health?
The absence of disease and infirmity, as well as te presence of physical, mental, and social well-being.
How does the textbook define disease?
A discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional.
How does the textbook define illness?
The individual patient’s experience of being unwell.
How does the text book define sickness?
An individual’s public expression of illness and disease, including social expectations about how one should behave and how others will respond.
What is ethnomedicine?
Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.
What is cultural medical anthropology?
An approach to the study of health and illness that analyzes the impact of inequality and stratification within systems of power on individual and group health outcomes.
