To explore how different cultures treat their members at different stages in life and how social isolation changes us physically.(All links will open in a new window.)
Read the article on widows in India
Answer the following questions in the box provided:
- Which of the listed aspects of widowhood impacted you the most emotionally and why?
- In culture you were raised in, how are widows treated?
- Knowing that humans need physical and emotional contact to stay psychologically healthy, what brain chemicals and brain areas are changed when a person is isolated from their family and friends? Consider using chapter 3 in our textbook and this article on isolation and the brain for further information.
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