Medicine and Healthcare within Anthropology

Medicine and Healthcare within Anthropology

            Initially, Indian culture is considered one of the leading practices that support effective medical practices with the integration of their traditional medicine and healing practices. Some of the best nations for medication is India. The immigrants from India were so much access to the natural plants, minerals, and other animal parts that were effective in boosting their immune systems as well as promoting the effective healing process. When a section of Indians migrated to the United States, the federal government developed a new assumption on the healthcare practices of the group on the responsibility of the American Indian Healthcare. The facility adequately included two different and fundamental medical practices that included integrated western medicine practices alongside traditional Indian medicine (Moodley & Sutherland, 2010). The early physicians approved the use of the significant Indian application of herbal medicine for the healing process. Therefore, this paper presents the evaluation of how immigrants from India utilized the traditional healing practices and the integration of the western medicine on how they keep the effectivity of the traditional medicine values alongside their responses to the western medicine culture.

However, the realization of the patient’s healing practices and instances also about the Indian healing practices were much recognized. On some occasions, patients received services of the traditional healers that sometimes generate some extend of corporations between the Indian conventional healers. And the modern physicians the provision of a systematic recognition of Indians medicine and healing practices may be considered to have been initiated approximately in the mid-twentieth century in a specific simultaneous occurrence on separate occasions (Shubusawa & Mui, 2010). For instance, the events that integrated the Indian traditional healing practices were shown in the integration of the several farm demonstration practices alongside the transfer of the Indian health services. The alliance was correctly attained from the interior department to the active health department in 1955 gave the combination of the Indian healing culture and the western medicine practices given a new impression.

The Many Farm Demonstration Projects

The concepts of many farm demonstration projects implied the effective collaboration displayed among the public health service sectors and were effectively collaborated to obtain the desired performances in general. The merger was identified in the Indian Health Service was initially presented in the case at the Cornel University Medical School at the Navajo school, who had the impression of taking the case of traditional medical practices actively. The activity also included the farm community interactions that were designed to assist in examining feasibility for an extended immigrant community of the Indians. This organization oriented immigrants with the effectivity of care provision at the printed care system carried by the Cornell University Physicians. The physicians operated as the newly introduced isoniazid, which mainly applied the traditional concepts in treating tuberculosis on any Navajo Indian who was infected while in the states (Clough et al., 2013). Also, the project of the Many Farms Demonstration that also included the availability of the anthropologist was instrumental in examining the interval examination of both applications of the modern medical practices as compared to the Indian traditional healing practices in the society. The evaluation of the Indian conventional healing practices that would only display a semi-quantitative approach to the concept of discussion and application instead would be considered useful in giving the most applicable information that would still be used in the modern healing practices (Shubusawa & Mui, 2010). The program’s success parts depend significantly on the presentation on the information relayed on the recognition that the application of the traditional healing practices should also be realized that it is not a condition with ready alternatives. Still, it displays beliefs on the patient’s parts that both the application of traditional healing practices and modern medicine integration has a great offer that would be applicable in ensuring adequate and effective services are provided to the Indian Immigrants.

The Indian Health Service

The initial organization, the Many Farm Project, was later identified as the Indian Health Services after they applied the concepts of traditional healing applications alongside the modern medicine applications in general. However, before the establishment of the Indian Health Services, several cares provided to the Indian immigrants was based on a significant community emphasis specifically on the promotion of the prevention programs (Clough et al., 2013). The organization established newly effective practices that included the activeness of the coordination and facilitation. The process was managed b the appointed doctors Dr. James Shaw, who was instrumental in developing and advancing the organization. The doctor considered the community orientation and implementation of a different number of initiatives. The initiatives included mainly paying attention to the desires of continued practices of the traditional Indian healing practices.  The approach also considered the method of the significant role that was, at times, effectively influenced by the traditional medicine men. The medicine men had a vital role in ensuring the valid promotion of the community practices that aimed at achieving the general practices of the organization. The objective of the organization was established with the ideology of improving and sustaining the medical and health standards of the community. Therefore, the operation presented the value of inculcating the actual traditional medical practices into the coordination with the current medical science that is needed to improve the general structure of the organizational performances towards improving the health of the Indian Immigrants (Clough et al., 2013). This ideology, therefore, introduced the essentiality and respect for the set of traditional healing programs. The healing programs were responsible for setting a positive tone for the subsequent creation of policies implied at the Indian Health Services and an illustration of the physicians at the Indian Health Service who mainly purposed on the calling of assistance for the traditional healing performances.

The integration of the Indian traditional healing practices into the modern medicine processes implied the occasion where the conventional medicine man could visit the hospitals to respond to merging appeals to return to the medical officer’s calls. The request was made to the traditional doctor after other patients had fled the organization, and more were willing to leave the facility, thus lighting the cause of the proposed illness as identified among some Indians after the lightning had struck a tree twice in the hospital’s compounds. The traditional Hiller had to offer blessings and outcast the concerned spirits where the other patients settled in the facility believing the danger had been eradicated by the traditional healer and staying in the facility was even safer at the point (Clough et al., 2013). Therefore, the integration of western medicine practices had been instilled into the system by the westerners alongside the encouragement of the Indian religion concepts that promoted the patients to extensively believe in the traditional healing practices that incorporated the modern practices also.

A fascinating bicultural facet in the ceremonial cases that were conducted in the facility’s laboratory and the event reached every patient’s room through the address of the public systems. The fact of attending the event was also instrumental in illustrating that alongside the addition to a particular individual healing process, the necessity of including the cultural consultation was considered influential practices for the healing process after the traditional healers addressed the patients via the public system were adequately considered. However, to the compelled patients as a result of significant dependence on tribal religion. They ideologically used to quit the hospital to seek traditional intervention despite the discouragement of modern medical procedures. Therefore, the patients developed the statuses where they would be able to relate the reasons to the need for the traditional healers instead of the physician (Shubusawa & Mui, 2010)s. Therefore, the combination of both the conventional and modern medical sciences are instrumental in promoting the practical outcome of the operations that encouraged the combination of both traditional healing and current medical practices.

However, in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Indian Hospital Services showed efforts that were in turn given a boost in their operations by including the traditional healing processes and the modern medicine practices by promoting the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act that indicated a designed primary concepts used in protecting the American Indian Religion that was on the verge of developing. The creation of the act reflected on the importance of including religious significance, as expressed in many healing processes as believed by the Indians. Therefore, with the generation of the ACT, the director at the facility provided a statement that praised the establishment of the Indian Health Service Facility in its effectivity in recognizing the efficacy and values of traditional beliefs, practices, and ceremonies used to heal the mind, body, and spirits. Therefore, the concept was applied in developing the policy of the origination to encourage an environment characterized by acceptance, respect where the individual personal traditional beliefs are also considered to be instrumental in promoting the healing process and putting together all the forces within themselves.

References

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Shibusawa, T., & Mui, A. C. (2010). Health status and health services utilization among older Asian Indian immigrants. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 12(4), 527-533.