This global force that continually attempts to reformat and formulate local histories and inherent traditions (separated often times geographically and elsewhere culturally) through the medicalization of illness and disability, are met with a reciprocal opposition from the subjected individuals. ... (Kleinman, pg. 70) In one case, we have seen a gross lack of respect of local history and tradition in the attempted vaccination of the citizens of India; and in another, thousands of women up in arms in resistance to Roe v. ... The rapid and aggressive advancements in medical technology, the e...

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