Medical anthropology addresses the symbolic, narrative, and ethical dimensions of healing, medicine, and medical technology in many different ways. One way they address these dimensions is to explore how local and international communities view wellness, illness, and healing through different perspectives. Their goal is to examine how communities are able to function individually and look for themes within the structure and systems of different communities across various 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 at the biomedical system, which “employs diverse explanatory models and idioms to make sense of illness and give meaning to 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 see the treatment as a prayer for a...