Genes And Culture

This fear does not allow people to do things they want and is against the basic fundaments of a healthy society. In a healthy society, people would be free to go outside during night and kids would be free to whistle. If these fears do not change, then the society will be destroyed because freedom is a basic necessity for a health society. Continuing on, another example of fear being fabricated in the minds of the people is during the appearance of the ancestral spirit, during the funeral of Ezeudu. The ancestral spirits have “a sickly odor hung in the air wherever he went, and flies went with him. Even the greatest medicine men took shelter, when he was near.” (122). The Ibo religion once again is able to fabricate fear into the minds of its followers. The religion places a fear of ancestral spirits thus making the society sacred of walking around during the appearance of spirits, which once again violates the freedom of the people. If a religion is implementing fear within the society, it is slowly killing itself because people deserve freedom. Fear leads to destruction.

As explained in the book, Gene falls into the category of those who could afford to retire but choose to continue working; he has continued working even though he and his wife had sufficient combined benefits to retire. However, “Lois Smith’s own benefits would not have enabled her to lead a financially comfortable retirement if she were not married, and she would probably face some financial hardship if she were to become a widow” (Hutchison, 2015).

There had been convictions that these healing practices were helpful, at least as supportive care, to clients suffering chronic mental illness. Spiritist healing practices: Spiritist medium diagnosed by seeing (inwardly envisioning) the causes of the illness and other problems to the spirit world. They do not heal in any direct sense but open their bodies to possession by illness or problem causing spirits who have attached themselves to sufferers. Healing takes place when the spirit medium assists the sufferer to come into harmony with these spirits and forgive them so as to change his or her emotions, lifestyle, physical complaints and/or destiny. The widespread fear in Puerto Rico associated with either becoming or being labeled as a loco acts a restraint on the ways medium works with persons whom they perceived psychiatric concepts and definitions of mental illness and those of the Spiritists. There was a case that was compared with the most frequent complaint of 220 women receiving help from Spiritits mediums at ritual healing

Nature plays an important role and shapes a human's lifestyle. The question is which has a greater influence, Nature genes that we're born with or Nurture the environment we live in? Nowadays people tend to live and act based on their Genes. Genes can be anything from a person's height, hair color, eye color, fatigue, personality, and behaviors. Humans have been inheriting traits from decades ago. Nevertheless, Researchers and Psychologists and Scientists think that Genes are the answer to our actions. I agree with them because “You inherit your environment just as much as your genes" – Johnny Rich. This essay will persuade the reader as to why I chose Nature, why/how is it more important than Nurture, provide case studies/examples and reasons for Nature's importance.

Salzman (2000) describes the journey of Sister John, a nun at the Carmelite convent in Los Angeles. She experiences headaches that develop into deep spiritual episodes, which her doctor later informs her, are the symptoms of her recurring seizures. Sister John has temporal-lobe epilepsy and her doctor explains that it, “tend[s] to be more psychological” (Salzman, 2000, p.68). Sister John’s spiritual episodes were presumably caused by her medical condition.

‘The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures’ is a book written in 1997 by the author Anne Fadiman. This book is based on a true story of the life of a Hmong child, Lia Lee who is epileptic. She suffers from numerous grand mal seizures and eventually she becomes vegetative for the remainder of her life. The intention of this book, however, is not Lia’s condition, but to highlight the problems that exist between the two cultures and the constant battles that Lia’s doctors and parents face due to the cultural barriers that exist between them. This is not just only a story of an ill child but about the more diverse battle between Eastern and Western medicine and how each view and treat patients in such different ways. In this essay the different health-seeking strategies used during Lia’s illness, the contrasting views between Lia’s parents and the American healthcare professionals and the theories of illness causation will be discussed.

In the Hmong culture, QDP is believed to be caused by a bad spirit called a dab. It is believed that dabs are responsible for stealing souls and making its victims sick. Epilepsy is recognized by western medicine as a serious neurological condition. Although Epilepsy and Quag

Early part of the 20th century epilepsy was linked with insanity; people believed that the Holy Spirit was working them. In Third World cultures epilepsy continue to be defined in super natural terms. Recently a community study in Nigeria found that after heredity, witch craft was the cause of epilepsy amongst the lay populace (Awaritefe et al, 1985). Danesi (1984) has revealed that most Nigerians with epilepsy experience it as highly stigmatizing and something to be hidden from others but through medical discoveries and medical advances we know that epilepsy is caused by abnormal neurological activity that occurs as a result of damage or result to the brain. Epilepsy is now controlled by carbamazepine tablets and sodium valproate which controls the seizures however, what we all know is subject to reinterpretation. At any time new technological advances, new medical discoveries, new ways of looking at the structure and functioning of the body or brain could replace the current orthodoxy and epilepsy could come to be seen in a completely different light.

This belief is often linked to the manipulation of culturally associated symbols, just as it was in the shamanistic complex. This strange phenomenon, lying on the cusp of biology and psychology, points to a critical question to be asked in examining the role of belief in health: Can the manipulation of belief be used as an efficacious treatment? The answer: Yes, and this can be seen in a variety of different settings beyond just the work of

What makes us who we are? Does the answer lie in our genes, our environment, or in the way we are raised? For years, there has been an on-going debate between nature and nurture. T.H. White, author of The Once and Future King, explores the debate through many of the book’s characters. The issue clearly appears in the relationship of Queen Morgause and her sons, the Orkney brothers. The debate caused people to pick a side, to pick nature over nurture, or nurture over nature. However, it does not have to be one or the other. Nature and nurture work together to determine who we are.

Culture is the main cause in molding one's identity, although influences of genetics can decide our personality.

The argument of “Nature versus Nurture” is one that has been going on for many years. Are certain traits, such as how individuals thing and act, genetically inherited from parents or other relatives? Or are these traits actually learned behaviors the individual developed over the course of its life, crafted by experiences and treatment methods? Understanding the relationship between genetics and environment is important because if people know how to produce a desirable temperament in an individual, they can have a healthier, happier, more productive animal. Studies indicate that temperament, in the Merino breed of sheep at least, is linked to genetics more than environment, and the sheep industry will benefit from a large boom in production if sheep are bred to have a calm temperament.

Nature is what affects your genes before you are born, it makes you who you are. Some stories to back this up is Anais and Sam. They were twins who were separated at birth, years later they found each other. When asked their biggest pet peeves, they both said that they hated when and if the shower curtain touched them. When asked what their favorite soda was, they both said that their drink was Coke. Even though they were separated at birth they acted the same, as if they were raised together.

99.9% of human DNA is similar, yet there are approximately seven billion unique individuals living today. So who is to say that humans develop majorly because of nature when there exists such a striking resemblance between the genetic makeups of every human being? To make things clear, nature is concerned with genes and hereditary influences whereas nurture is the combination of social and physical influences that cultivates an individual. There also lies differing ideologies on either end of the debate spectrum, those who strongly believe that nature and genetics are the cause of human development are known as nativists whereas empiricists are on the extreme opposite, they argue that a human is born with a blank mind that is then developed through experiences (McLeod, 2007). Although nature is wholly responsible for how we look, I believe that

Genes build the phenotype of humans as well as the underlying genotype. Competition between cultural genes leads to varied success of genetic determinism. It can therefore be said that learnt traits such as those espoused within a specific culture, can produce what may seem to be the genetic genotype of an individual. Genes are not always advantageous in the