Chapter 3 Cultural and Pharmacogenetic Considerations Flashcards
ethnopharmacology
study of drug responses that may be unique to an individual owning to social cultural and biolgic phenomena
pharmacogenetics
incorporates variations of a predicted response to a drug due to genetic factors
sets of learned behavior and ideas that humans acquire as a community
culture
community
cluster of individuals who function as a group to attain cultural universals
designed to meet the communitys survival needs and common goals to maintain the group
cultural universals
traditional health practices
teas, herbs, spices, ointments
when a less powerful group changes its ways to blend in with dominant culture group
assimilation
acculturation
group adjusts to living within a dominant culture while at the same time maintaining its original identity
complementary health practices
combine traditional beliefs and mainstream health practices
when dominant group adopts health practices from non dominant groups
alternative health practices
genomes
complete set of chromosomes, make up cells DNA
DNA variants that occur within a specific population greater than 1%
polymorphisms
substrate
substance that binds to and is metabolized by one or more enzymes