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Cultures globally are man-made survival strategy based on responding to various environmental, ecological,
demographical, topographical, geographical, political, social, psychological and economic factors for
diversity. The point raised here is if the nature accepts the diversity due to which the living styles,
languages, dressing, and other related aspects of aesthetics then why don’t human accept socio-cultural
diversity. The paper focuses its discussion on medical anthropology. Anthropologists have long been
involved in studying the health systems of various societies that they choose for research. The
understandings of various cultures and its medical practices helped anthropologists to understand why
people prefer to have a unique and indigenous thought patterns as regards health notions and practices.
Pakistan being a member of third world brethren still holds its position among the conventional
medicalization. National life is divided into various strands of medical belief system and thus practices
regarding diagnosis, curing, treatments, rehabilitation. Health bureaucracy blindly follows the Western
medical approaches upon which there are intellectual debates internationally to accept the cultural notions
in order to improve the global indicators while accepting the local cultures and their interpretations on such
vital aspects of man’s civilized life. There is a need to reiterate the health policy as well as the brain set of
medical care systems to give the cultural perceptions and thus medical anthropology a due role in
deciphering the dream into a reality. This paper attempts to educate the readers about the importance of
cultural factors in understanding the disease, illness and healing in cultural settings and also to discuss the
role of ethno-medicine that has been acknowledged throughout the world.
Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, Hafeez ur Rahman Chaudhry. (2012) Anthropo medical orientation reflection on medical anthropology and Casual Riddel, , Volume-06, Issue-2.
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