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Chapter 2: Interdisciplinary Research in Health Problems 1. Film: Aids and Circumcision • • • The evidence for the relationship between aids and circumcision was multi and interdisciplinary. The practice of circumcision is cultural and religious. The change in practice requires a multi and interdisciplinary effort. • Film: Eduardo the Healer – Update: Eduardo recently died, after this film he became quite famous and opened a clinic which saw patience up until he died. He became internationally recognized as a shaman/healer and went to international conferences on shamanism. – Even traditional healers are multi disciplinary practitioners. • • • • Magic Psychology Anthropology Etc. Eco Terms: • Ecology - The study of ecosystems – Interrelationships between the environment and the populations that inhabit that environment • Population – a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same environmental area • Species – a population of reproductively isolated individuals – gene flow within a species, no gene flow between species. • Niche – a way of making a living within an environment. Types of Population Interactions • Niche competition: when two or more populations are utilizing the same set of resources within an environment – Populations tend to avoid competition by diverging into other niches or sub niches • Predators and Pray – Diseases? – Innate fears – Disgust • Parasitism – Reason for Sexual Reproduction (Red Queen) • Table 2.1 – Be familiar with the list of infectious and parasitic organisms. – Are Prions an organism? – Kuru, cultural component • Epidemiology – the study of spatial and temporal distribution of disease – Hep A in London • Study Types of Disease in Table 2.2 • Morbidity vs Mortality • Doing fieldwork (next week in the combined class with ANTH 511 – Participant Observation – Ethics – Informed Consent – Etc. • Political Economy – World System – Marxist Ideology • Ecological and Biocultural – Books prospective – Health is a by-product of human environmental interactions • Environment includes other species • Political Ecology – Environment and social/political history