Health and Medicine

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• Adaptive traits
• Barrida
• Becker, Anne
• Biocultural
• Biomedical
• Birth control
• Brazil: culture bound syndromes
• Chi
• Cholera
• Communal healing
• Culture-bound syndrome
• Disease
• Emotionalistic explanation (ethno-etiology)
• Epidemiological transition
• Ethno-etiology
• Ethnomedicine
• Farmer, Paul
• Fiji
• Foragers
• Four humors
• H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918
• Haiti Heiban Nuba (cultural group)
• Holistic Homo sapiens
• Humoral healing
• Illness
• Inhorn, Marcia
• In-vitro fertilization
• Kleinman, Arthur
• !Kung (Ju/’hoansi) (cultural group)
• Lifestyle
• Maladaptive traits
• Malaria Medical anthropology
• Mixe (cultural group)
• n/um
• Naturalistic ethno-etiology
• Nervos
• Personalistic ethno-etiology
• Placebo effect
• Shaman
• Sickle cell gene
• Smallpox
• Somatic
• Stigma
• Susto
• TCM: Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Theory of natural selection
• Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Zoonotic