Relationship between culture and health

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Reading Journal Reflection: Book Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Review p. 277 and consider the different perspectives Bill and Sukey have on Lia's case, and health more broadly.

1. How do Bill and Sukey's opposing views demonstrate the complicated relationship between culture and health?

2. In what ways does this conversation illustrate the need for cultural competency training in biomedicine?

Refer to what you have learned in the lessons in this module, including Kleinman's 8 questions, the McGill Illness Narrative Questionnaire, and Dr. Rita Charon's narrative medicine.

3. How does their conversation complicate the idea of "do no harm" in medicine? What harms are at stake here?

4. Who do you tend to side with in this argument on the life or the soul, based on what you have read in Spirit-- Bill or Sukey? How do you feel your perspective is informed by your own cultural upbringing?

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