Tomorrow is my exam for Medical Anthropology.\u00a0 This is the only exam I’m really worried about this term…\u00a0 Philosophy and anthropology have stopped acting the same way for quite some time, so I’m pretty confused when reading most of the material.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
I really wish I were better at this subject, to be honest.\u00a0 It’s a really interesting field, and one that I think doesn’t get quite enough attention.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 That’s really only one of the interesting things in the course, but it struck me more than a lot of the other things.<\/p>\n
My classes for mondays, wednesdays and fridays were always kind of odd.\u00a0 It went Existentialism, medical anthropology, then ethics.\u00a0 So I go from abstract and subjective focus on the human mind to objective, neutral, cultural relativism to theories of universal morality.\u00a0 It’s like doing yoga with my value system.<\/p>\n
But yeah.\u00a0 That is honestly all I have been doing today.\u00a0 Fortunately, my epistemology exam doesn’t worry me anywhere near as much, so this is really my last trial of the term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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