"For almost all of us, everyday life experience in communities and networks "no matter how influenced we are by global forces of communication, commerce, and the flow of people "centers on what is locally at stake."" ... The rapid and aggressive advancements in medical technology, the experimentation of new methodologies on human "test subjects-, the "excessive American optimism about how problems can be fixed and excessive reductionism of the kind of data considered to be especially relevant to policy making- (Kleinman, pg 92), and the medicalization of disability and illness, all c...

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