On the Rationality of Decision‐Making Studies: Part 2: Divergent Rationalities
A study of treatment decision making in an Anishinaabe community in Manitoba, Canada was designed to be comparable with an earlier project carried out in a Mexican town. One objective was to compare the resulting decision models. For both communities, a decision‐making perspective was compatible wit...
| Published in: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1998
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/maq.1998.12.3.341 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fmaq.1998.12.3.341 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/maq.1998.12.3.341 |
| Summary: | A study of treatment decision making in an Anishinaabe community in Manitoba, Canada was designed to be comparable with an earlier project carried out in a Mexican town. One objective was to compare the resulting decision models. For both communities, a decision‐making perspective was compatible with how individuals talked about actions taken in response to illness, and it proved to be a useful means for learning about the process of seeking care. At the same time, a decision‐modeling approach is better suited to explaining treatment actions taken in the Mexican community than in the Anishinaabe community. I suggest that this finding reflects the variable potentiality, in the Anishinaabe community, for affliction and its treatment to be constructed within a cultural framework in which the underlying assumptions differ from those implicit in studies of decision modeling, [care seeking, decision models, decision making, Anishinaabe] |
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