The “small ovens” he is referring to is a hair dryer. Miner then moves on to discuss the “medicine men” and their “imposing temple” which is supposed to represent a doctor and a hospital. He uses the word “latipso” because it is hospital spelled backwards without the h as a disguise. He also describes the doctors uniforms as costumes and headdress. Miner uses the expression “that is where you go to die” to express how Naciremas viewed going to the latipso.
Still even an inexperienced evaluator soon realizes the connection between the Nacirema and the United States. In fact, the word “Nacirema” is “American” spelled backwards. Miner further correlates the Nacirema to Americans by describing the location of this tribe to be in North America and refers to the feats of their hero whose name happens to be Washington spelled backwards (Miner 503). Miner describes the Nacirema people as a culture obsessed with rituals regarding to the vanity of the human body. In reality many of these rituals are considered to be normal hygiene practices by most civilized cultures.
The Eye of the Beholder Horace Miner's "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" focuses on the different aspects of the Nacirema culture in regards to the way its inhabitants view their bodies and overall physical appearance. In the passage Miner wastes no time in explaining the unique yet questionable rituals conducted by members of the Nacirema tribe. He also blatantly utilizes a sense of satire to express his own disapproval of the daily practices of a tribe very similar to the American people of the nineteen fifties. In an attempt to sum up his writing, it is safe to say that Americans are thought of to be disgusted by the human body and will go through extremely odd measures to correct its flaws. In the passage, Miner uses satire to deliver
Age Specific Case Study Roberto Calderone, is an 82-year-old retired army general. He was with a myocardial infarction. He was monitored and treated with aspirin 325 mg and started on a beta blocker to control his hypertension. Several nurses have commented on him being a “difficult patient” as he is “stubborn and wants to control everything” while he is at the hospital. Mr. Calderone has been observed to order his wife to “get this” and “get that” in a rather brusque manner and when she steps out of the room, he does the same to the nurses.
Natives are being judge by their appearance and their life style as they are not very civilized. From this perspective, their history and culture are being ignored. In the article, Bill says to Bob: " By the feathers, we got a book" (2). The "feathers" indicates tribes. Every culture has different tribes, and each tribe has different traditions, beliefs and languages.
What man has the knowledge to decide who should live or die? Author Richard Selzer uses a first person narrative to describe the differences between a doctor and a priest in his short story “The surgeon as priest”. He wrote the story as nurse working in a hospital observing two medical professionals. He made a big impression by introducing Yeshi Dhonden as a foreigner to contrast him from the other doctors. In the first paragraph the author describes the narrators’ “ ill- concealed dubiety” and “ suspicion of bamboozlement ” to set a mood of uneasiness and suspense.
Analysis of Riverside City Campus "The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of the powerful influences of ritual and ceremony." This was said by Bromislaw Malinowski, a British anthropologist, in Horace Miner's essay," Body Ritual among the Nacirema." In the essay, Miner shows the reader how an outsider views American culture, through sociological concepts of ethnocentrism and values. James M. Henslin, defines "ethnocentrism" as "the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally
He continues on to describe American culture as someone, perhaps from a tribal community, would. For example, the Nacirema have strange habits, such as going to see “holy-mouth-men,” that practice oral medicine. They believe without mouth rituals, their teeth would fall out and social relationships would fail. In addition, the focal point of each family is a shrine box where magical potions and charms are kept. In reality, the “holy-mouth-men” are dentists, and the shrine box is actually a medicine cabinet containing prescriptions etc.
He is “playing god” by taking these people and showing their “deadly sin” and using it to kill them. Treating sociopathic behavior is extremely difficult(Mayo Clinic 2010). Most people don’t think they need treatment or want it. Most will need long-term care and follow-up. The common treatments are psychotherapy, stress and anger management skills, medication, and hospitalization(Vorvick & Merrill 2010).
This is a mixture of Aztec, Spanish, spiritual and homeopathic combined with scientific medicine. It is practiced by a holistic leader in the form of laying of hands, using herbs and plants to cure illness. The holistic leaders are also sought to perform massages, counseling and readings and cleansings in the form of baths. Hispanics too, seek modern healthcare as a last resort if their folk medicines fail and once their condition improves, the need for healthcare or medicine is no longer