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- Incorporate at least two forms of multimedia on this page that represents the ethno-medical dimensions of your illness [e.g. charts, pictures, youtube videos, etc] and cite your sources. Make sure you refer to/explain them in your essay.
- Write a 400+ word essay explaining how an anthropologist could study this disease using the ethno-medical approach. Incorporate the following:
- Introduce the Ethnomedical approach: describe the approach, its major components/themes and its value to understanding this illness.
- Discuss the concept of "culture" and explain the importance of contextualizing illness within a given cultural system.
- Apply Kleinman's explanatory models of health to this illness and discuss how people understand and seek treatment in the various sectors (folk, popular, professional) within a specific culture or across cultures.
- Based on the lecture, explain the various ways the "body" can be conceptualized in the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. You can use the Lock and Scheper-Hughes article for reference as well.
- Make sure you emphasize the anthropological perspective - after all, this is for an anthropology course!
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