Abstract
When physicians and other medical personnel first began to think in cultural terms it was with the conviction that where barriers to acceptance of Western (cosmopolitan, international) medicine existed, they were rooted in the ways of reticent populations. Anthropologists, particularly those working in early international public health programs, shared this view. We believed that the answers to most problems of acceptance lay in penetrating health-related beliefs embedded in the social and cultural forms of recipient peoples. We assumed that once we obtained this knowledge we would be in a position to translate the relevant dimensions of Western medicine in such a way that decimating diseases could be treated and adverse health conditions eradicated. “By understanding (and in appropriate situations perhaps even utilizing) the hot/cold belief system of Hispanic patients (Harwood 1971) or the yin/yang system of Chinese patients (Kleinman 1975) it has been reasoned, Western health professionals would be better able to enforce compliance with treatment” (Kleinman 1978: 86).
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Anderson, B.G., Toledo, J.R., Hazam, N. (1982). An Approach to the Resolution of Mexican-American Resistance to Diagnostic and Remedial Pediatric Heart Care. In: Chrisman, N.J., Maretzki, T.W. (eds) Clinically Applied Anthropology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9180-0_12
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