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310 CHAPTER 13 | Human Adaptation to a Changing World

Cultural perspectives can thus be at odds with inter-

national public health goals that are based on a strictly

Western biomedical understanding of disease. In the fol-

lowing Original Study, biological anthropologist Kather-

ine Dettwyler shows that each perspective brings with it

particular challenges and benefits.

urine at the time of adolescence (due to a high enough

parasite load to cause this symptom) is regarded as a

male version of menstruation.^10

(^10) Desowitz, R. S. (1987). New Guinea tapeworms and Jewish grandmothers.
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