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Week 3 – Assignment help – Discussion 2

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Assignment help – Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Health and Healing

Compare and contrast the various forms of healing and ethnomedicine exhibited in this week’s assigned articles and videos. How do cultural values and socio-economic conditions shape healing practices? Should western medical intervention have taken place in any of these examples? Why or why not? Assignment help – Discuss the example of the “Nacirema” culture in Miner’s article.What differences and similarities do you see between this culture’s health rituals and that of most contemporary Americans?
 

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.
 

Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. If possible, choose one post that focuses on the need for western medical intervention and another that takes a more culturally relative stance towards ethnomedicine.