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Chapter 2: Interdisciplinary Research in
Health Problems
1. Film: Aids and Circumcision
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The evidence for the relationship
between aids and circumcision was
multi and interdisciplinary.
The practice of circumcision is cultural
and religious.
The change in practice requires a
multi and interdisciplinary effort.
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Film: Eduardo the Healer
– Update: Eduardo recently died, after this film
he became quite famous and opened a
clinic which saw patience up until he died.
He became internationally recognized as a
shaman/healer and went to international
conferences on shamanism.
– Even traditional healers are multi disciplinary
practitioners.
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Magic
Psychology
Anthropology
Etc.
Eco Terms:
• Ecology - The study of ecosystems
– Interrelationships between the environment and the
populations that inhabit that environment
• Population – a group of individuals of the same
species that live in the same environmental area
• Species – a population of reproductively isolated
individuals – gene flow within a species, no gene
flow between species.
• Niche – a way of making a living within an
environment.
Types of Population Interactions
• Niche competition: when two or more
populations are utilizing the same set of
resources within an environment
– Populations tend to avoid competition by
diverging into other niches or sub niches
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Predators and Pray – Diseases?
– Innate fears
– Disgust
• Parasitism – Reason for Sexual
Reproduction (Red Queen)
• Table 2.1 – Be familiar with the
list of infectious and parasitic
organisms.
– Are Prions an organism?
– Kuru, cultural component
• Epidemiology – the study of
spatial and temporal distribution
of disease
– Hep A in London
• Study Types of Disease in Table 2.2
• Morbidity vs Mortality
• Doing fieldwork (next week in the
combined class with ANTH 511
– Participant Observation
– Ethics
– Informed Consent
– Etc.
• Political Economy
– World System
– Marxist Ideology
• Ecological and Biocultural
– Books prospective
– Health is a by-product of human
environmental interactions
• Environment includes other species
• Political Ecology
– Environment and social/political history