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- The Anthropology of Birth, Cross-cultural Aspects12
- 1.1Culture, Health and Illness: an introduction (Cross-Cultural Aspects Of Health): key questions when thinking about health; biology/culture (nature/nurture debate); can we think of a “biological” health different from culture?
- 1.2Understanding health from the perspective of social sciences, studies of magic and religion (still birth was considered “biological” and sexual/reproductive issues only studies if they related to superstition, magic, religion; “symbolic efficiency”)
- 1.3Recognition of culture in health, cognitive/symbolic medical anthropology (Mead, Benedict, Kleinman, Good); explicative models and semantic networks.
- 1.4Recognition of culture in health, cognitive/symbolic medical anthropology (Mead, Benedict, Kleinman, Good); explicative models and semantic networks.
- 1.5Models Of The Human Body; Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth And Childbearing; Human Life Cycle, Biopolitics, body, embodiment, gender (Mead, Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler), biomedicine as cultural system
- 1.6The disciplining of sexuality and having children: case discussion (female genital mutilation, hysteria, purity/impurity, etc)
- 1.7Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth and Childbearing in a cross-cultural perspective (Martin, Inhorn…)
- 1.8Birth in Four Cultures (Jordan) (The Evolution Of Maternal Birthing Positions; Cross-Cultural aspects of birth)
- 1.9Medicalization of birth (Davis-Floyd, Kitzinger)
- 1.10Actual debates (care, autonomy, biology/culture revisited)
- 1.11Contemporary dilemmas on multiculturality and access to sexual-reproductive health services
- 1.12FINAL QUIZ60 Questions