Tomorrow is my exam for Medical Anthropology.  This is the only exam I’m really worried about this term…  Philosophy and anthropology have stopped acting the same way for quite some time, so I’m pretty confused when reading most of the material.  I’m going to just have to force as much knowledge on the subject into my mind as possible and hope it stays there well enough for me to think critically with it.

I really wish I were better at this subject, to be honest.  It’s a really interesting field, and one that I think doesn’t get quite enough attention.  I was always kind of arrogant with regards to traditional healing and holistic medicine before I took this, and I always just considered them to be liars and swindlers who took money from people who feared death.  But when western medicine is put under scrutiny, it’s effectiveness in combating illness isn’t really good enough justification for considering it the only medical practice to take into consideration.  That’s really only one of the interesting things in the course, but it struck me more than a lot of the other things.

My classes for mondays, wednesdays and fridays were always kind of odd.  It went Existentialism, medical anthropology, then ethics.  So I go from abstract and subjective focus on the human mind to objective, neutral, cultural relativism to theories of universal morality.  It’s like doing yoga with my value system.

But yeah.  That is honestly all I have been doing today.  Fortunately, my epistemology exam doesn’t worry me anywhere near as much, so this is really my last trial of the term.