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Causation ideologies
Utu/shamash
Seeks to find the single entity causing disease. If you know the cause, you can find a cure for it
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Separates sick ness from the patient. They believe sickness is the problem and not the patient, which ignores patients
Anthropological approach
Looks at relationship between disease, patient, and healer
2 spheres of health
Personal: How an individual perceives their own health
Communal: How other's perceive your health
Medical pluralism
Many healers to choose from and you can go to however many you want
Mesopotamian medicine
- No separation between natural and supernatural world
- Hierarchy: Gods > spirits > humans
- Idea of obedience and consideration
Cosmology
Mesopotamians believed that all elements in the world have conscious power and that power can be accessed
Symptoms
seen as encoded messages between patient and community
Marduk
- Wisdom, magic, vegetation
- Attributes are not related to medicine but is the most supreme god
- "Healer of the Gods"
- Head of the divine council
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, Greek and hippocratic medicine
Hippocratic "triangle of medicine"
TermsMesopotamian medicine
in this set (35)
Causation ideologies
Utu/shamash
Seeks to find the single entity causing disease. If you know the cause, you can find a cure for it
Reduction ideologies Press any key to continue
Don't know?
Continue
Separates sick ness from the patient. They believe sickness is the problem and not the patient, which ignores patients
Anthropological approach
Looks at relationship between disease, patient, and healer
2 spheres of health
Personal: How an individual perceives their own health
Communal: How other's perceive your health
Medical pluralism
Many healers to choose from and you can go to however many you want
Mesopotamian medicine
- No separation between natural and supernatural world
- Hierarchy: Gods > spirits > humans
- Idea of obedience and consideration
Cosmology
Mesopotamians believed that all elements in the world have conscious power and that power can be accessed
Symptoms
seen as encoded messages between patient and community
Marduk
- Wisdom, magic, vegetation
- Attributes are not related to medicine but is the most supreme god
- "Healer of the Gods"
- Head of the divine council
