Content
Approaches to health and health care in Asian
societies differ from 'great traditions', like Ayurveda, to locally
highly specific ethnobotanical knowledge and mother-and-child care
practices. The integration of cultural traditions of knowledge and
biomedical practices is based on active selection by the users and
practitioners, and may involve conflicting notions and practices. This
course is concerned with the relationship between anthropological theory
and medical practices. It deals with notions of health and illness, of
reproduction and bodily fluids, medicine use, and commodification,
shamanism and modernity. The reading mirrors the different approaches to
health and healthcare in Asia.
Course docent: Prof. Dr. P. Streefland, University
of Amsterdam
My
essays and papers
For this course I had to
write various short essay summaries and one paper.
