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A 5 page paper which examines how different cultures, people, and professionals deal with illness as seen in The Great Mortality by John Kelly and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. No additional sources cited.
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try to discover some allusive answer. In the case of the individual they may ask "why me?" and in the case of a society, as has often been seen in
relationship to AIDS, people will claim it is a punishment on a culture. The following paper examines such issues as seen in The Great Mortality by John Kelly and The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. Kellys work deals with the Black Plague and Fadimans work deals with a Hmong family in California whose daughter has
a form of epilepsy. Illness The first issue requested by the student states, "compare the role which disease exerts on institutional
authorities in the Spirit and Mortality." In both cases, in both stories of real events, institutional authorities were clearly frustrated. In the case of Fadimans work the western medical community,
the so called authorities, felt they knew best what was wrong and what to do about it. But, at the same time they did not take into consideration the institution
that was the Hmong culture, thereby making their approaches invalid. And, it clearly made the institution of medicine frustrated. In Kellys work one sees many different reactions from institutions.
During this time in history there was a very powerful sense of faith in the people and in the institutions. The institutions of faith, however, were very manipulate and desirous
of power in any way attainable. However, the primary institutions, no matter the nation, were primarily based in religion. As such there were numerous ways in which this disease was
viewed by the institutions. It was seen as punishment from God, and seen as punishment that involved the people, or particular people such as the Jews. For example, in Germany
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