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- Convenor:
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Vislawath Jagadeesh
(Karnatak Arts College of Karnatak University, Dharwad)
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- Discussant:
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Prema Hallikeri
(Karnatak University, Dharwad)
- Track:
- Life and Death
- Location:
- Roscoe 2.4
- Sessions:
- Friday 9 August, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
Human population would have been vanished long ago had it not been developed the modern modes and methods of controlling diseases. Health and human development form an integral components of overall socio-economic development of any nation.
Long Abstract:
Human population would have been vanished, long ago, had it not been developed the modern modes and methods of controlling diseases. Health and human development form an integral components of overall socio-economic development of any nation.
Medical anthropology is a new field, where anthropologists are trying and struggling with health related issues such as epidemiology, methodological issues and the areas of practice and interfacing with other social and biological discipline.
Medical Anthropology is a newly emerging sub-discipline in India. Though the term medical anthropology was first used in India, it could not be pursued systematically. Medical anthropology deals with holistic study of health, illness and hygiene, as these are culturally perceived, labeled, classified, experienced and communicated on one hand and socially constructed roles, statuses and institutional networks which are believed to help in the health and enhancing process, on the other, with a view to identify cross-cultural similarities and variations in the patterning of such behavior. This panel will explore a serious academic attempt made by Anthropologist across the world.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 9 August, 2013, -Prema Hallikeri (Karnatak University, Dharwad)
Paper short abstract:
As is very evidently suggested by the title itself, this paper focuses on the aspect of nutrition and health among the tribo-rural Indian women and more specifically that segment of the population existent in North Karnataka region located in Southern part of India
Paper long abstract:
This proposed topic of study obviously falls under the discipline of Medical Anthropology - a fast developing science, health and nutritional aspects of women shall be dealt with, in the backdrop of socio-cultural aspect (viz. customs and beliefs) of Anthropology, which in other words makes this study a multifaceted one.
This multifarious Anthropological study also addresses the following questions among many other, such as Are these select women marginalized in terms of medication and nutrition in their cultural context?
i. Are these women aware of their nutrition & health (physical & mental) condition?
ii. Are they (women) aware of their human/woman Rights to health-nutrition-medication?
iii. Do they (women) accept the NGO's, their role in uplifting the health conditions in terms of nutrition and medication?
iv. To what extent is the nutritional medication rendered (by the international organizations & indigenous institutions) to these women genuine?
v. What role the Government of India, WHO, etc., have been playing in restoring good health, nutrition-medication to these women & to what extent the socio-cultural beliefs & customs been combated in this regard?
In the light of the above raised issues, this medico-socio-cultural study would be taken up under the main broad classification, such as
a) Women and nutrition;
b) Girl child and nutrition;
c) Pregnant women and nutrition;
d) Medication-nutrition supplements for women & girl children.
Eventually, this paper intends to stress upon the importance of nutritional medication in specified cultural context, which could be indispensable to continue AnthrÅpos - the species of homo sapiens and yet restoring diverse ethnicities from vanishing.
V Murali Jadesh (Gulbarga University)
Paper short abstract:
Using a single iv injection of 1 mg Evans blue dye/100 g body wt in Tribes(lambada), The contribution of fluid Phase endocytosis bile flow was estimated.In normal tribes,this pathway contributed 2-4% of the bie flow or 10- 20 ul/hr/100 g body weight.
Paper long abstract:
Using a single iv injection of 1 mg Evans blue dye/100 g body wt in Tribes(lambada), The contribution of fluid Phase endocytosis bile flow was estimated.In normal tribes,this pathway contributed 2-4% of the bie flow or 10- 20 ul/hr/100 g body weight. This contribution was not affected by cholestasis induced by taurolithocholic acid bile duct obstraction or by cholersis induced by dehydrocholic acid.It is concluded that fluid phase endocytosis does not significantly influence bile formation but, rather ,may be implecatied in the remodeling of liver cell plasma membranes.
Anna Cronin de Chavez (University of Leeds) Helen Ball (Durham University) Martin Ward Platt (Royal Victoria Infirmary) Angela Mary Tod (University of Manchester)
Paper short abstract:
Clinical research has focused more on the harmful effects of heat on the body than cold, yet humoral aetiologies of disease prescribing thermal balance are widespread globally. This paper looks at differences in thermal care beliefs and practices in three cultures and implications for health.
Paper long abstract:
The health and survival of human beings, as homeotherms, is dependent on maintaining body temperature within a range of only a few degrees in any environmental condition. Temperature regulation is achieved through a combination of physiological processes and behaviour. There are cultural variations in the way thermal care needs are understood particularly in relation to the effects of heat and cold on health. In some societies, humoral aetiologies of disease influence the prescription of balance of heat and cold to conserve health and life. By contrast, other societies consider heat particularly dangerous, whereas cold having the potential to protect health. This study compares infant thermal care beliefs of mothers in three communities - Guatemalan, white British and UK based South Asian. The methods used were ethnographic and mixed methods. Results describe how these beliefs impact on thermal care practices of these mothers. Humoral aetiologies of disease still have a major influence on thermal care and health behaviours. Lay epidemiology may influence choice and direction of clinical research that has traditionally focused more on the dangers of heat and higher body temperatures rather than the incidence and harmful effects of lower body temperatures and exposure to cold. The understanding of this potential bias is particularly relevant for clinical research into sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), fever, respiratory infections, neonatal hypothermia, measurement of vital signs, asthma and excess winter deaths.