The main theme of the readings is the perspectives or approaches of how health and disease/illness is viewed through different social and cultural aspects. In chapter two of the textbook, some sections of the reading explained various concepts and styles of biomedical approaches by theory, in which it describes the way problems, such as disease, is dealt with, as well as understanding how the issue came to be, and the attitude towards the situation. Like the textbook, Wiley and Allen describe the manner health, disease, illness, and sickness is characterized by a certain viewpoint. What I found most interesting in chapter two of the textbook is the connection culture and society has in constructing ideals towards medical anthropology, in addition
