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Howard Brody's "The Social Power Of Expert Healers" And Nancy Scheper-Hughes' "The Anthropological Looking Glass": Analysis And Interpretation

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advocates that that power be shared within the context of the common man. To Brody, information is truly the healing agent, even above and beyond the overconfident attitude of  old medicine, to the point where he supports a much more interactive approach to the power maintained by expert healers. This approach clearly correlates with some of Nancy Scheper-Hughes  theories of social power, while at the same time also deviating somewhat from her more native-specific findings. Scheper-Hughes speaks to the separation of culture when addressing social power, a notion  that allows her to divide the ways in which certain cultures utilize their power when compared with others. When the student discusses the kinds of power that Scheper-Hughes and  the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be important to elaborate upon the notion of "do no harm,"  a concept that Scheper-Hughes refers to time and time again in relation to the aspect of maintaining a respective distance when imposing ones personal perspective upon another entirely foreign culture.  When the student uses some of Brodys theories about the social power of experts in order to analyze the ways Scheper-Hughes and the  villagers handle power in their relationships, it is important to understand that there exist a great many philosophies by which people live their lives, which help to maintain a sense  of social order and direction. Two of these fundamental principles are ethical relativism and ethical objectivism, which provide the concepts of how people incorporate ethical occurrences throughout their daily  existence. To delve into the concept of ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. There is no universally