This passage demonstrates a culture-specific aspect of violence done to Juma. This group of street boys had this initiation process that was not only literally violent, but led to other negative consequences, such as the spread of HIV/AIDS. This is culture specific because in this culture this sexual practice known as "kunyenga" is not something you hear about across different cultures. For this group of boys this is a way to show toughness and power. It is hard for an outsider looking in to even comprehend why this extreme practice is necessary. This can be connected to a structural process in that the lack of sexual education and some kind of system in place to keep these boys off the street results in such a large number of street boys.

This quote demonstrates the 'experience of pain' as mythological or allegorical. The type of pain this person is talking about does not even seem physical. Their pain can't even really be measured because it is mental or emotional. The drinking and drugs being a cure for the pain make it seem allegorical because those substances are just forms of "treatment" that last for a certain moment and not getting that treatment in time leads to a much more intense 'experience of pain'.

This quote is an example of where the woman's analysis of post childbirth clashes with the biomedical framework. She believes the time after birth should be peaceful and have no tension. However, from a biomedical perspective there are many potential problems that may occur after childbirth.

This is an example of where the biomedical framework clashes with the women's own framework of distress. The woman here is claiming that thinking too much causes her to feel drowsy. From a biomedical point of view there is no correlation between overthinking and drowsiness.

This quote demonstrates where the patient might be describing an embodied experience. He is being haunted by this woman and clearly traumatized by this horrific accident. He is embodying guilt from not being able to save her. The way he keeps saying that he feels it at night, leads me to believe that he feels the guilt. The way he runs back to his bedroom also demonstrates an embodied quality.

I do not agree with the authors interpretation of what the Rabbi is trying to say here. It does not seem like the rabbi is focusing on Yosef being socially cut off, but rather not very religious. Yosef does not seem very connected to his religion. He does not do what other men like him are expected to do in their community. I do not see the rabbi's connection between social and moral-religious.

This quote demonstrates how the body has "social meanings". The fact that the physician has to reconstruct their view of the body in order to be a competent doctor says a lot. By changing the perception of the body that is almost dehumanizing the body in order to perform the task at hand. I think emotions and reflections that the author talks about in this section is an aspect of social meaning. The body as a social being is the reason why this separation must take place as a physician. It is not a normal everyday activity for the majority of society to dissect the human body, which I think is part of the reason why there needs to be that detachment from the body in practitioners.

This quote is an example of how embodiment helps to explain patient-physician experiences. While this quote does not directly talk about embodiment, I feel that it gets at some of the other quotes from the participants later on in the article. From a clinical perspective, when dealing with the body, the main focus is the biomedical facts. Whereas the patient tends to focus on what these facts physically feel like and what it means to live with a certain condition or illness. I like the way the article mentions that the patient seeks a different type of healing. The patient is concerned with restoring those connections between the body and normal everyday life. The physician may not always take into account the patients' longing for this connectedness.

There is a social aspect to any illness. This section talks about the relationship between patient and doctor. The way a patient navigates that relationship is different than how they would navigate the relationship with a non medical professional. The new definition I discovered here for the word "sickness" is that being sick means new social norms for that person.

This section of the article talks about illness in relation to the world and how we arrange events in our life in a certain order. The new definition of the word "sickness" I discovered here is that it is more than the physical symptoms; and just how our life follows a certain sequence, sickness also has it's own sequence of events.

While people may share the same diagnosis the experience of that illness is personal. Every person will experience sickness in a different way. Illness affects people in different ways because typically no two people with the same illness were living the same exact lifestyle before the illness.

The culture concept helps to explain why survivors are reluctant to share certain experiences or may recall their experience in a specific way. When talking about sexual history the social norms surrounding this topic definitely varies across cultures. It may be more acceptable to share these experiences in certain places because it is encouraged in order to bring awareness. Whereas people in other places fear being shamed for their experience. These attitudes toward sexual violence is evident in the way the authors describe the success of different research methods for collecting data.

When using quantitative methods, researchers are able to see numbers and make conclusions based on those numbers alone. Then with qualitative methods, researchers are able to take those numbers and take a deeper look at what they mean. Numbers alone will not give you specific insights about sex and gender-based violence. So while they're two different methods, they are able to support one another for the overall purpose of the study.

The authors want to demonstrate how there are many issues that may arise when collecting data and the ways to combat these challenges in order to properly depict these behaviors and experiences. I think this is important because there are definitely many ways to tell someone's story; and when dealing with a sensitive topic you want to be able to give that person's experience the respect it deserves.