BROADCASTS BLOCKED
INTERNET DOWN IN THE OLD LIFE SCIENCE BUILDING

lead counter is a proposition 65

environmental violation

5-6-10

Medical anthropology

bring a guest as a part of presentation!!!!

presentation now optional!!!!

blogging not recommended as field notebook for privacy and rapport reasons.

anthro is being chased out of anthropology

and replaced by critical theory

cultural geography

past

eugenics

colonialism

militarism

department of defense supported anthropology

or CIA

how can modern anthropology distinguish itself from its colonialist past?????

when I asked whether or not the implicit gender bias of “anthro” pology is ever questioned, teacher cleverly tried to point towards the distinction between

anthropos---which he asserts is gender neutral yes

Greek anthrōpos ‘human being.’

and andros---which is male

in distinction

andro- (usu. andr- before a vowel)

combining form

man (as opposed to woman) : androcentric | androgenize.

I think my point resides in the phoeneme, in a linguistic sense of original root “sounds,” a point too subtle for this class

book:

spirit catch me and I fall down

how can the modern anthropologist repair the damage to anthropology done by

qualitative

social circumstances

standard biomedical concepts.

Class cannot be broadcast anymore.

I requested again today.

The lecture is quite good and dense.

I cannot type fast enough.

Quite impressed that teacher is now blocking his internet to deter us from broadcasting lecture, blogging the notes, or looking things up like the

books:

the serpent and the rainbow

the spirit catches me and I fall down

or a more complicated history of the andro/anthro phoeneme split

I realized that the 4-16-10 lecture was indeed quite good as I listened to it last night on bambuser.com

the linguistic gripe with “show your tits” does not nullify the fact that the lecture was quite dense and articulate.

If a dialogue were permitted regarding language, then anger would need not affect the IT options for students.

Language imperialism forces one language on a people, and tells them they cannot speak a certain way.

Because I request more respect for women and have been told “you have no case” now the students and public are deprived of brian bartelt's great lecture.

I hope he tightens up his act, and gets to a university that forces him to be tech-friendly, like stanford.

It would be mandatory itunes university lectures.

I don't think he could get by with cursing and saying “tits and ass,” but once this part is deleted the overall content is quite good.

Biochemical effects on mind/body

as with verbal abuse

methodologies

elizabeth said the “silent scream” day was unnecessary.

Teacher walked out of class to vent his fury in a silent scream.

It was I think bc a student was late.

I thought it was funny, bc I don't get angry so easily, and don't understand people who do.

It seemed very dramatic.

I thought it was funny and I made a little video immediately afterward.

It is on youtube.

Camaroon healing

70% effective

bigtime cultural relativism

wonder about PTSD

a better way to describe PTSD

the impasse

possession

reflexology

adversarial distinction btw conventional and traditional medicine

does away with

and does away with artificial adversarial distinction

1. homeostatic

2. treatment healing

3. mind-body system

4. spiritual healing

insular dwarfism

insular

treatment healing

mind/body system

darwinian medicine

proximate v. evolutionary

spiritual healing v. evolutionary

internal equilibrium maintained by internal processes

healers look at bloodwork too bc they want to see the

biomedical . . . too

anthropo: outside the box???

via scott clapson . . .

bb: conspiratorial

“right-wing nutjobs” would love a video of teach he guesses

I say that is why it is

fearless

its not the fifties anymore

re: videos

homeostasis |ˌhōmēəˈstāsis|

noun ( pl. -ses |-sēz|)

the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, esp. as maintained by physiological processes.

allopathy |əˈläpəθē|

noun

the treatment of disease by conventional means, i.e., with drugs having opposite effects to the symptoms. Often contrasted with homeopathy .

After an hour in the classroom

I can smell the smog intensify

not sure if it is the AC or the bad air from outside now smelling ultra-petrofuely

why morning clarity is so precious, before the smog takes off in los angeles

bless the night, a time when traffic, and smog subsides

Point contra bashing biomed

Darwinian medicine

looks at adaptive significance of disease

natural selection

disease cravings

for fat

heart attacks

nephew lizard hunt story

re growing back tail

not finger

put stem cell researchers out of work

exquisite

fever kills pathogens

do not take fever medicine

it will kill the bugs

do not try this with a young child.

Reminds me of the vegan parents who were serving

iron deficiency

protects against infection

appetite loss

prescribe iron

you get more sick

bacteria feed off iron

brain produces chem reducing reduces iron

iron suplementation will increase illness

70% doctors do not know this 2005

so the stereotype

arcane:

bloodletting

actually had a good effect

morning sickness protects the fetus

in the sixties morning sickness medication would promote deformities

body rejects food to protect fetus

double rate miscarriage

birth defects

biomedicine does have its limits

standing birth

birth no drugs

cold steel surgical room

C-section

infant mortality

high due to prenatal care

overstandardization

chemotherapy

what was the alternative radon . . .