Introduction Disease or Sickness is the entities suspected of causing harm to an organism in biological as well as social functioning. Altered health state in a culture is deemed of causing vulnerabilities to reproduction, ability to care for loved ones and body metabolisms. Illness in every society is thought to interfere with the primary activities and social behaviours of an individual. Biomedicine has strict confrontations to be made against conventional treating remedies as it does not believe in their spiritual or herbal concept of healing.
Let us discuss how biomedical and sociological conceptions of health and illness differ and how they are perceived by the critiques of Biomedical field (Anderson, 2002). Discussion The induction of different cultures, traditions and anthropological healing procedures and beliefs in our society has been always continued from the ancient civilization. As referring to the case study of Emily Rose, Lyabo culture thinks about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a illness called Kuru which have no evidence based philosophy.
Emily has been misdirected and let to go stray because of unfamiliarity of various cultures to identify modern day scientific drugs and diagnostic measures. Mistreatments in such cases result in adverse effects on the individual and when contacted with the physician, the disease has already become advanced. Cultural meaning of physical illness is shown to reflect in nonexistent experience whereas in Biomedicine psycho-somatic and Psychological disorders are studies as research based medical practices (Ware, 2009) .
Critiques Biomedicine has taken benefits of utilizing the “Racial” factors into consideration when diagnosing the illness. In Emily’s case the specific racial basis of her illness predisposes her prone to the causation of the disease but due to insufficient knowledge her grandmother did not get to the exact diagnosis. Research of biomedicine had long been criticizing the surrogate relationships in alternative medicine as self identified and risky for the true diagnosis and treatment of the mental illness. The controversies about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome between medical community and the anthropological remedies had been over patho-physiological findings of this disorder.
Many traditional curing techniques are under questioning by many patients groups as they say that conventional treatments are not advocating properly the serious mental illnesses. The lack of knowledge between professionals and cultural remedification has not reached to consensus on attempt to reach out to patients and their cure in a collective and combined approach. From the classical period till today different cultures have placed depression in unrecognizable manners and ways. Even to present day the evolution of medicine is still going on and still is a dynamic history of facts and statements (Barry, 2013).
Now, the type of depression has much diversified and as one of the sub-type is characterized as “The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. Conclusion Sickness and healing at the same time constituent and interrelated to morbidity and mortality not just today but since the ancient evolutionary times, although designated by different facts and believes, but the primary identification remains the same. From the thought process of contemporary medicines to the advent of state-of-art drug scientific treatments, the core intentions to cease the suffering remain the same, to bring it to a consolatory end.
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