Medical anthropology approaches the symbolic, narrative and ethical dimensions of healing, medicine and medical technology in different ways. They address these dimensions by exploring how local and international communities view wellness, illness and healing from different perspectives. Their goal is to examine how communities are able to function individually and to look for themes within the structure and systems of different communities across diverse cultures. Anthropologists spend a lot of time exploring and discussing the topic of treatment within various communities. The traditional model for exploring this treatment is to look to the biomedical system, which "employs different explanatory models and idioms to make sense of illness and make sense of the individual and social experience of illness" (Kleinman 1973: 86), and often leaves the social, economic and cultural factors that influence the concept of treatment. The concept of treatment is different within each culture. Some cultures view the treatment as praying over a...