#Cultural influences on the practice of allopathic medicine in the United States have been vastly documented: at the same time, applied medical antropologists havee been working to help implement measures thought by allopathic medicine to improve morbidity and mortality in non-Western settings . In these two bodies of literature, allopathic practice in the United States is portrayed as bound to Western ideologies , while native conceptualiztions of health and diseaseare portayed as barriers to the institution of effective allopathic practice. These two conceptualizations do not allow us to make sense of the native practitioner of aliopathic medicine, however. This person is tied both to Western ideologies , through his/her training and profession, and through his/her social identity, to native cultures.
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