ANTH 250 - Culture and Medicine

On diverse biologies and differeing embodiments: nervos

2011-01-26T22:00:00.000-08:00

nervos in popular media:

"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypMOEKJuh8

The actual title refers in Spanish to "un ataque de nervios" which is not actually well translated by "nervous breakdown". "Ataques de nervios" are culture-bound psychological phenomena during which the individual, most often female, displays dramatic outpouring of negative emotions, bodily gestures, occasional falling to the ground, and fainting, often in response to receiving disturbing news or witnessing or participating in an upsetting event.

On diverse biologies and differing embodiments: menopause

2011-01-26T21:20:00.000-08:00

"scientific" constructions:

What is "Menopause": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQALrv5d6rM

How to "recognize" "menopause": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63tP4uvMULY&NR=1

"Estrogen deficiency" (with a vengeance): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSwY88NuMbI

"popular" constructions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6Ps8ITbzE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0KvMJCERF4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8VWG2X5GI

popular constructions around the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWCSJvicBU&feature=related

making menopause, selling solutions:

hormone replacement therapies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNva4o_HBc&feature=related

"not your average herbal remedy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjqT5DhYVRg

the new "menopause":

"male menopause": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bVEkxguAA

"testosterone deficiency" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW-ojcQsonY

On placebos and the power of context and culture

2011-01-26T20:11:00.000-08:00

What is the placebo effect?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsFTgirKXHk

However, what is he taking for granted about the placebo effect? What does Moerman underscore is true about the placebo effect?