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...their views on health.? Write a 700-1050 word paper in APA format describing two different cultures and their views on health. What are the implications to health care providers? Consider cultural views on the following topics:
-Health as organic
-Health as harmony
-Disease as a curse or stigma
Medical technologies are the most noticeable and familiar appearance of the power of biomedicine in current life. They have become a fundamental part of human experiences including birth, family relations, work life, aging, and death, no matter if one is ill, render inoperative, or healthy. All societies make device for evaluating the body's ability to function physically and cognitively and all fashion tools for rehabilitation, explore, and healing. What differs is the way that concepts of disease and wellness, scientific theories, and technical developments cooperate within particular economic, cultural, historical and political environments to produce technological systems that persist while others are discarded or subordinated. Although complex technologies are associated with Western, allopathic medicine found in more industrialized societies, a variety of technological systems can coexist in any society.
For purposes of this review, medical technologies will be defined as the
-Health as organic
-Health as harmony
-Disease as a curse or stigma
Medical technologies are the most noticeable and familiar appearance of the power of biomedicine in current life. They have become a fundamental part of human experiences including birth, family relations, work life, aging, and death, no matter if one is ill, render inoperative, or healthy. All societies make device for evaluating the body's ability to function physically and cognitively and all fashion tools for rehabilitation, explore, and healing. What differs is the way that concepts of disease and wellness, scientific theories, and technical developments cooperate within particular economic, cultural, historical and political environments to produce technological systems that persist while others are discarded or subordinated. Although complex technologies are associated with Western, allopathic medicine found in more industrialized societies, a variety of technological systems can coexist in any society.
For purposes of this review, medical technologies will be defined as the