Editing Medical Anthropology (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Medical Anthropology''' — The study of how health and illness are shaped by cultural and social factors.
* '''Health''' — A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being (not just the absence of disease).
* '''Disease''' — A biological malfunction of the body (The "Doctor's" perspective).
* '''Illness''' — The personal, social, and cultural experience of being unwell (The "Patient's" perspective).
* '''Biomedicine''' — The dominant Western system of medicine that focuses on biological and physical factors.
* '''Ethnomedicine''' — The medical beliefs and practices of indigenous or non-Western cultures.
* '''Placebo Effect''' — A positive change in health not caused by a drug, but by the patient's expectation of healing.
* '''Nocebo Effect''' — A negative change in health caused by the patient's expectation of harm.
* '''Stigma''' — A social marker of "shame" that can prevent people from seeking treatment (e.g., for HIV or Mental Health).
* '''Medicalization''' — The process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions (e.g., childbirth, aging, ADHD).
* '''Social Determinants of Health''' — The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age (wealth, education, housing).
* '''Syndemic''' — The interaction of two or more diseases or health conditions in a population, exacerbated by social inequality.
* '''Shaman''' — A practitioner in some traditional societies who is believed to have access to and influence in the world of good and evil spirits.
* '''Biocultural Perspective''' — An approach that looks at how biological and cultural factors interact to affect health.
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