Biomedicine In The United States Reflect The Majority Culture
1. If you become ill, how might your worldview influence your expectations about your illness and its treatment?
a. In my culture we are very religious so if I were to become ill I will take whatever medication that my doctor prescribes and I will pray to God and believe that he will heal me. Sometimes medications don’t work so I put my faith in God and expect him to heal me and if he doesn’t I believe that it is his will, it wasn’t meant to be.
2. How does Biomedicine in the United States reflect the majority culture?
a. In the majority culture in the U.S, many ahead to Biomedical practitioners. They believe that there is a reason for every sickness even if the cause of the illness is unknown. They play an active role in their health by eating healthy, excising and …show more content…
The U.S biomedicine just focus on the biological and physical aspect of health. They do not look the social, Psychological or environmental aspect of health. According to the text, the World Health Organization see health as being “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely an absence of disease or infirmity”. The text went on the state that the WHO does not take into account the “natural, spiritual, and supernatural dimensions of health”
4. Describe three ways that diet may be used to promote or maintain health, using specific example of foods and practices.
a. According to the text, the United states dietary guidelines recommend a diet full of vegetables, whole grain, and fruits and smaller intake of meats, legumes and dairy products. The guidelines also recommend to avoid sugary, fatty and salty foods.
b. The text mentions the Chinese yin-yang system which encourage eating a balance of both yin-yang foods to stay healthy. They yin foods include “raw foods, soothing and food cooked at low temperature and foods that are white or light green in color”. The yang food includes foods that are “high in calorie, cooked in high heat, spicy and has a red-orange-yellow
a. In my culture we are very religious so if I were to become ill I will take whatever medication that my doctor prescribes and I will pray to God and believe that he will heal me. Sometimes medications don’t work so I put my faith in God and expect him to heal me and if he doesn’t I believe that it is his will, it wasn’t meant to be.
2. How does Biomedicine in the United States reflect the majority culture?
a. In the majority culture in the U.S, many ahead to Biomedical practitioners. They believe that there is a reason for every sickness even if the cause of the illness is unknown. They play an active role in their health by eating healthy, excising and …show more content…
The U.S biomedicine just focus on the biological and physical aspect of health. They do not look the social, Psychological or environmental aspect of health. According to the text, the World Health Organization see health as being “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely an absence of disease or infirmity”. The text went on the state that the WHO does not take into account the “natural, spiritual, and supernatural dimensions of health”
4. Describe three ways that diet may be used to promote or maintain health, using specific example of foods and practices.
a. According to the text, the United states dietary guidelines recommend a diet full of vegetables, whole grain, and fruits and smaller intake of meats, legumes and dairy products. The guidelines also recommend to avoid sugary, fatty and salty foods.
b. The text mentions the Chinese yin-yang system which encourage eating a balance of both yin-yang foods to stay healthy. They yin foods include “raw foods, soothing and food cooked at low temperature and foods that are white or light green in color”. The yang food includes foods that are “high in calorie, cooked in high heat, spicy and has a red-orange-yellow