Answer these prompts in three paragraphs without exceeding 400 words. For each question, I will provide the sources.
1) What does it mean to say that human illness is "socially constructed"? (Using the article "The Americanization of Mental Illness" -The New York Times and the textbook "Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology… Chapter on Health and Medicine http://perspectives.americananthro.org/Chapters/Perspectives.pdf)
2) According to the article "The House Gun", what does the Oscar Pistorius case reveal about race relations in the post apartheid South Africa ?
3) What is the "biocultural" perspective on human evolution and what does it tell us about health, illness, and disease. (Using textbook chapter "Culture and sustainability")
4) "Nature produces difference, not categories." What does this mean with respect to cultural ideas of sex and gender. (Using the article "The Third Gender -Serena Nanda and textbook chapter on "Gender and Sexuality', using the same textbook above)
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