This part of the passage demonstrates a culture-specific aspect of violence done to Juma. His immediate family is forced to leave the shamba. As a single mother with 3 children to take care of, Juma's mother was forced to give herself into "prostitution" and Juma was to drop out of school. Later on in his interviews with the writer, he reveals that he wanted to be a doctor. However, he lacked the education and the money. The culture that Juma lived in left him no choice but to be a street boy who was unable to improve his lifestyle. Had Juma had been part of a wealthier family, he most likely would have followed a different part of the culture and become a doctor. This cultural detail intersects with a structural process in that the government allowed the gold corporation to be built, leading Juma's aunt and uncle to move into the shamba. The government's agreement to the gold corporation failed to keep the well-being of the people. Furthermore, the culture aided Juma's aunt and uncle in inheriting his father's shamba rather than his mother.

This quote demonstrates the experience of pain as mythological or allegorical. This particular drug user explains the feeling of pain as something that drastically changed him/herself as a person. The pain affected the drug user to become a variable--susceptible to change. The pain prevented the user from his/her everyday life, having the user question his existence, thus, discouraging him from becoming better. This user describes the aftereffect of the pain as "Sometimes I felt like I didn't even deserve to eat 'cause I didn't feel worth anything." Due to its heavy influence on the user, the pain causes the user to lose himself. He feels useless and develops feelings of misery.

This quote is an example of biomedical explanatory frameworks clashing with women's own frameworks of distress. The mothers of this culture believe that health problems associated with childbirth only include physical symptoms. Symptoms presented in the mind and/or emotional problems are not acknowledged to be a "major" problem/issue. The mothers believe the tensions and nervous feelings they have after childbirth to be something that comes and goes after a short period of time. They lack the knowledge of being able to have Postpartum depression and anxiety. Because they do not seek help and treatment, the little tensions and anxiety they have can become Postpartum depression, which can lead to suicidal thoughts.

This part of the article clashes with the biomedical explanatory framework of women's distress. Though the culture that these women live in also play a part in them not seeking treatment, these women, in a way, downplay their own symptoms and illness. Here, three mothers did seek medical treatment; however, they failed to mention their mental and emotional problems. To them, it is the headaches and tiredness that cause the emotional symptoms rather than the opposite. Additionally, their culture somewhat refuses to accept the fact that mental/ emotional problems are existent and can lead to great consequences.

Yosef's witnessing of the accident gives him a feeling of guilt. He embodied his experience to the point that he believes the young woman is following him because he did not help her. Yosef describes the story as looking away just as the crash happens, seeing the paramedics performing their "vain efforts", and seeing the girl being driven away in the ambulance. In a way, it is because of his witnessing the paramedics doing little to help the young woman that causes him to feel guilt. Had Yosef had known first aid, maybe he could have helped the young woman. Because he doesn't, he somewhat envisions himself in the shoes of the paramedics that put in vain effort. His lack of help and assistance causes him to feel guilty.

I disagree with Rabbi Dov's statement. Rabbi Dov believes that Yosef's guilty feeling and his problem with seeing the woman stems from his lack of belonging in the religious world. In a way, Rabbi Dov sees Yosef's problem as a consequence of not following the culture of being religiously involved. In a more western point of view, Yosef is simply traumatized by witnessing the accident. Commonly, people who witness shocking events develop post traumatic stress disorder and have similar symptoms to Yosef. Rabbi Dov, himself, is a religious person and is most likely to come to conclusions connected to religion and culture.

This part of the passage mentions that doctors place themselves into the shoes of the patients they come across. The doctor says that "the closer they were to your age the more real it became." Doctors are able to embody the patient's situation especially if they are of a similar social group. Because of the similarity of age, doctors are able to embody themselves and find it hard to accept the fact that the patient has passed.

This sentence hints that the body has "social meanings." The body, depending on the physical and social environment adapts and changes accordingly. People with psychiatric problems develop these problems due to the social context they live in. Witnessing or experiencing a disturbing event can cause the body and the mind, in which the body houses, to react negatively to any triggers. The body experiences the social events and affects the person as a whole.

This part of the article defines illness as an excuse or explanation to an action or behavior. With this meaning, illness is a word we, as humans, made up to simply make us seem reasonable. An employee feeling lazy would call in sick or claim to be sick in order to have a day off would be one making use of this meaning of the word. The way we make use of the word "illness", further makes the word lose its intent.

This part of the article highlights that illness is dependent on the person who experiences it and how he/she defines "illness." Every individual most likely has his/her own definition for the words sickness and illness, which, in a way, causes those words to not have an universally accepted definition. Because of the 'personal experience narratives,' someone can be experiencing what would be the 'norm' while someone else would be experiencing the same situation but define it as an illness. Illness is based on personal experience and on personal definition.

Most commonly, when someone says he/she is sick, others think that he/she may have caught a cold or the flu. However, I think this part of the article hints that sickness or "being sick" includes mental sickness such as depression. In the case of those who are depressed, their "daily life is obstructed, perhaps blocked altogether." Though it can be argued that a simple cold or flu can also obstruct and block daily life, this article also mentions "discontinuance of an ongoing life" which I take in to understand as a sickness (depression) that will require a long period of time to get over.

Qualitative methods would provide more details of a topic opposed to quantitative methods. In a way, quantitative methods are used to receive a simple and generalized summary of a certain topic. In contrast, qualitative methods will give specifics and can lead the researcher to inquire about different aspects of the topic. Qualitative methods are able to give an interview its flow and there is little likelihood of the information received being false or influenced by outside factors.

The culture concept "Customs and Traditions" explains the authors' findings. In most non-industrialized places, there lacks the idea of gender equality. In these places, such as Swaziland, the women are suppressed by men because it is considered a behavioral norm. It is because of the social norm that pressures the women that the women are unable to respond with the utmost truth.

I believe this to be the study question. The researchers are trying to compare different methodologies and come to a conclusion as to which is most appropriate to use depending on what is to be researched and observed. The author's study question is important as it will bring us closest to discovering the "truth" without bias and influence.