25 Oct How does medical pluralism function among the Aymara in Bolivia? Do you agree their assessment that this medical dialogue is more about coping than empowerment? Can you think of similar ex
Please see the attachment. You have to read chapter 7 and answer the five questions in the folder that name is Week5_Class9.
Singer/Baer/Long/Pavlotski
Chapter 7
People, Places, Concepts and Questions
People, Places & Concepts
Dominative medical system
Medical pluralism
Libbet Crandon-Malamud
Kachitu
Aymara Indians
Medical dialogue
Steve Ferzacca
Yogyakarta
Complementary and alternative medicine
Naturopathy
Popular sector
Therapeutic management group
Folk sector
Professional sector
Aztecs
Biomedicine
Biological reductionism
Exclusive systems
Tolerant systems
Integrated systems
Syncretism
Hybridization
Mangle of practice
Medical diversity
Mediocscapes
Questions
1. According to the case study presented at the beginning of Singer/Baer/Long/Pavlotski Chapter 7, how does medical pluralism function among the Aymara in Bolivia? Do you agree their assessment that this “medical dialogue” is more about coping than empowerment? Can you think of similar examples of medical pluralism in your own lives? How would you situate these experiences within US political economy and the global economy?
2. How did biomedicine come to dominate other forms of healing in the 19th and 20th centuries in Australia and the US?
3. What is complementary and alternative medicine, and how does it relate to biomedicine?
5. How do dominative medical systems vary in different societies, such as China, India, Indonesia and Morocco.
