Agenda

• Use Library web to
  • access LUIS, MEDLINE, and DATABASES
  • view article summaries and send to self or print
  • order from ILL and give to citation to instructor
• Instructor homepage http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/sstans
• Interdisciplinary Nature of Medical Anthropology
• Sign on in Computer Lab: 10:15

Interdisciplinary Research in
Health Problems

"watchers at the seal breathing holes"

3 September, 1997

A look at Inuit health using an Ecological Medical Anthropological (EMA) approach

• Environmental data
• Clinical data
• Epidemiological data
• Socio-cultural data

Environmental Data

• Arctic
• Food supply
• Low population size

Nutrition

Clinical Data

• Nutrition
• Vasoconstriction and vasodilation
• Nonshivering thermogenesis
• Allen's rule

Epidemiological DATA

• Disease rare
  • few parasites and infectious organisms survive
  • small communities won't sustain epidemics
• Most conditions chronic
  • arthritis, eye damage, osteoporosis, pibloktoq
• Accidents major cause of death
  • drowning, freezing
• Social mortality
  • feuds, murder, suicide, infanticide

Sociocultural Data

• Material culture
  • parka
  • snow houses
  • dogs
  • boats
• speech

Chapter 2 continued

Agenda 8 September, 1997

--Summary of internet experience

--Report guide

--Review

--Chapter 2

Ecological Terms

• ecology
• human population
  • generalized
• species
• ecological niche
• competition
• predator-prey
• symbiosis
  • parasitism
  • mutualism

Terms in Clinical Data

• Acute
• Chronic
• Disease
• Illness
• Sickness

Epidemiological Terms

• Epidemic
• Endemic
• Prevalence
• Incidence
• Morbidity
• Mortality
• Etiology

Socio-Cultural Terms

• Field work
• Comparative discipline
• Participant observation
• Ethnography
• Ethnosemantics
  • emic
  • etic

Ethnosemantics

• From Cognitive Anthropology
• Cognitive categories
  • Mental
  • Linguistic
• ASSIGNMENT: List all the kinds of skin diseases/disorders that you know.

Create a Chart of Your Categories

Wednesday: Chapter 3