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| the study of cross-cultural health systems |
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| a healing approach based on modern Western science that emphasizes technology for diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body. |
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| in the disease-illness dichotomy, a biological health problem that is objective and universal. |
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| in the disease-illness dichotomy, culturally shaped perceptions and experiences of a health problem. |
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| culture-specific syndrome |
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| a collection of signs an symptoms that is restricted to a particular culture or a limited number of cultures |
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| the process through which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering. |
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| fright/shock disease, a culture specific illness found in spain and portugal and among latino people wherever they live; symptoms include back pain, fatigue, weakness, and lack of appetite. |
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| a culturally specific causal explanation for health problems and suffering. |
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| human health problems caused by such economic and political factors as war, famine, terrorism, forced migration, and poverty. |
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| healing that emphasizes the social context as a key component and that is carried out within the public domain. |
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| healing that emphasizes balance among natural elements within the body |
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| healing through the use of plants |
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| ecological/epidemiological approach |
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| an approach within medical anthropology that considers how aspects of the natural environment and social environment interact to cause illness |
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| the intergenerational transfer of the detrimental effects of colonialism from parents to children. |
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| a positive result from a healing method due to a symbolic or otherwise nonmaterial factor. |
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| critical medical anthropology |
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| an approach within medical anthropology involving the analysis of how economic and political structures shape people's health status, their access to health care, and the prevailing medical systems that exist in relation to them. |
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| the labeling of a particular issue or problem as medical and requiring medical treatment when, in fact, that issue or problem is economic or political. |
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| a health problem caused or increased by economic development activities that have detrimental effects on the environment and people's relationship with it. |
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| the existence of more than one health system i na culture, also, a government policy to promote the integration of local healing systems into biomedical practice. |
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| applied medical anthropology |
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| the application of anthropological knowledge to furthering the goals of health care providers. |
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| someone who is familiar with two cultures and can promote communication and understanding among them. |
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| the predominant form of kin relationships in a culture and the kinds of behavior involved. |
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| the tracing of kinship relationships through parentage |
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| the tracing of descent through both parents |
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| the tracing of descent through only one parent |
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| a descent system that highlights the importance of men in tracing descent, determine marital residence with or near the groom's family, and providing for inheritance of property through the male line. |
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| a descent system that highlights the importance of women by tracing descent through the female line, favoring marital residence with or near the bride's family, and providing for property to be inherited through the female line. |
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| a union, usually between two people who are likely to be, but aren't necessarily, coresident, sexually involved with each other, and procreative. |
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| a strongly held prohibition against marrying or having sex with particular kin. |
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| marriage within a particular group or locality |
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| offspring of either one's father's brother or one's mother's sister |
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| offspring of either one's father's sister or one's mother's brother |
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| marriage outside a particular group or locality. |
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| the transfer of cash and goods from the bride's family to the newly married couple. |
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| the transfer of cash and goods from the groom's family to the bride's family and the bride. |
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| a form of marriage exchange in which the groom works for his father-in-law for a certain length of time before returning home with the bride. |
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| marriage between two people |
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| marriage involving multiple spouses |
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| marriage of one husband with more than one wife |
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| marriage of one wife with more than one husband |
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| either one person living alone or a group of people who may or may not be related by kinship and who share living space.. |
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| a domestic unit containing one adult couple (married or partners) with or without children |
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| a coresidential group that comprises more than one parent-child unit |
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| a coresidential group that comprises only two married couples related through males. commonly found in East Asian cultures. |
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| a household pattern in which a female or females is the central figure around whom other members cluster. |
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