034 - Death of Tradition in Medicine
05/30/23 • 26 min
Besides the explosion of medical company monopolies, not much has changed with medicine in my lifetime. My boomer parents took pills for everything and they encouraged me to. mention of a headache gets an ibuprofen, rather than a glass of water. Even at a young age I was obsessed with primitive people and I wondered how they survived without our modern medicine, or even toothpaste. It was only once I was much older that I realized that much of the problems we have are due to our modern life and they way we live, and our culture decided the best solution was to pop pills and make $400 rubber insoles rather than actually change the culture to just not create those problems that need industrial solutions.
I’m Sam and this is the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast. The weekly cultural anthropology and history podcast that makes sense of our senseless world through indigenous and historical examples, academic methods in social science, and a perspective not limited by the crushing restrictions that come with traditional academia and public schools
Today we are going to talk traditional medicine, the pros and cons and what it can do and can’t do. Then where our modern health system comes from, what the nature of our health culture is, and why people are so fat and miserable in the west.
Discord:
Audio Podcast:
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases
“The Horse, the Wheel, and Language”::
In Defense of Food:
Audible AUDIOBOOKS, free trial: https://amzn.to/3TJOARA
#anthropology #podcasts #videopodcast #history #historypodcasts #health #medicalanthropology #biomedicine #homeopathy #culture #tradition #traditionalmedicine #indigenous #spiritual #wholehealth #shaman #indigenousmedicine
Discord:
https://discord.gg/KhJgpMj6Jj
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IllegitimateScholar
Audio Podcast:
https://pod.link/1650280020
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH77S0fVLmAZU4xLnAxuvw
Besides the explosion of medical company monopolies, not much has changed with medicine in my lifetime. My boomer parents took pills for everything and they encouraged me to. mention of a headache gets an ibuprofen, rather than a glass of water. Even at a young age I was obsessed with primitive people and I wondered how they survived without our modern medicine, or even toothpaste. It was only once I was much older that I realized that much of the problems we have are due to our modern life and they way we live, and our culture decided the best solution was to pop pills and make $400 rubber insoles rather than actually change the culture to just not create those problems that need industrial solutions.
I’m Sam and this is the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast. The weekly cultural anthropology and history podcast that makes sense of our senseless world through indigenous and historical examples, academic methods in social science, and a perspective not limited by the crushing restrictions that come with traditional academia and public schools
Today we are going to talk traditional medicine, the pros and cons and what it can do and can’t do. Then where our modern health system comes from, what the nature of our health culture is, and why people are so fat and miserable in the west.
Discord:
Audio Podcast:
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases
“The Horse, the Wheel, and Language”::
In Defense of Food:
Audible AUDIOBOOKS, free trial: https://amzn.to/3TJOARA
#anthropology #podcasts #videopodcast #history #historypodcasts #health #medicalanthropology #biomedicine #homeopathy #culture #tradition #traditionalmedicine #indigenous #spiritual #wholehealth #shaman #indigenousmedicine
Discord:
https://discord.gg/KhJgpMj6Jj
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IllegitimateScholar
Audio Podcast:
https://pod.link/1650280020
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH77S0fVLmAZU4xLnAxuvw
Previous Episode
033 - Caffeine and Capitalism: A Culture's Choice of Drug
Indigenous cultures often have hallucinogenic traditions, from Meso-America, to Africa, the Pacific, and indigenous Europe. The United States, Spain, and Japan, just as diverse, all drink similar amounts of coffee while being very different cultures. Why do these cultures that differ so much share these traits, and what do these, and the use of other drugs tell us about the values and customs of a culture?
I’m Sam and this is the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast. The weekly cultural anthropology and history podcast that tries to make sense of our senseless world through indigenous and historical examples, academic methods in social science, and a perspective not limited by the crushing restrictions that come with traditional academia and public schools.
Today we are going to find out the similarities in a few indigenous hallucinogenic traditions, and why these similar traditions thrived in these very different cultures. Then, what makes alcohol tied to settled life. What makes alcohol give way to caffeine as the main drug of the west, and what are the consequences of this shift are. Finally, what the drugs of the last few decades have to say about the state of our modern culture.
Discord:
Audio Podcast:
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
BOOKS
“The Horse, the Wheel, and Language”::
“Uncommon Ground: The History of Coffee and how it changed the world
Audible AUDIOBOOKS, free trial: https://amzn.to/3TJOARA
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases
#podcast #history #anthropology #culture #socialanthropology #culturalanthropology #politicalscience #geopolitics #indigenous #politics #libertarian #liberty
Discord:
https://discord.gg/KhJgpMj6Jj
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IllegitimateScholar
Audio Podcast:
https://pod.link/1650280020
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH77S0fVLmAZU4xLnAxuvw
Next Episode
ISL 001 - Current Events June 9, 2023
This is ISL, Illegitimate Scholar live, current events covered of the week covered by the Illegitimate Scholar
Sorry for the weirdness with uploads, I am settling into a new routine.
From now on, live show will take place on Thursdays at 8pm eastern, weekly on youtube and other platforms, and that will be uploaded as an audio file on the Podcast feed the next day.
Mondays will be either a traditional Illegitimate Scholar Episode or a conversation.
This is the first of the Live Shows.
We begin by discussing the Trump indictment, and how the law is applied differently to different people. We have come full circle from tradition, into law, and then back to tradition that circumvents law
Then we discuss woke regime change, the CIA, and Pride month.
The corruption the DNC/RNC allow.
Food aid to Ethiopia and touching on death traps, and the Moorish festival in Spain where Spaniards wear blackface.
Then we discuss the migrant crisis as it applies to New York, and how China is targeting US firms.
We finish with the NGO Human Rights Council declaring a state of emergency for the alphabet people, and then a 2nd amendment win and the weird story of Baby Gronk.
Discord:
Audio Podcast:
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
#anthropology #podcasts #videopodcast #history #historypodcasts #currentevents #news #libertarian #liberty #usanews #politicalnews #politics #anthropologypodcasts #constitution #indictment #trump
Discord:
https://discord.gg/KhJgpMj6Jj
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IllegitimateScholar
Audio Podcast:
https://pod.link/1650280020
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH77S0fVLmAZU4xLnAxuvw
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/illegitimate-scholar-328381/034-death-of-tradition-in-medicine-47915460"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to 034 - death of tradition in medicine on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy