But the practice remains culturally important to many Japanese and the meat of the cetaceans was presented to tourists at a major food festival that ended last week.
On the surface, these couples appear socially and sexually conservative, and practice a culturally standard sexual life and marriage practice, with no apparent deviation from traditionally monogamous behaviors.
Following Rose, biomedical technologies are assemblages of material objects, knowledge, persons and systems of judgements, which in their practice are culturally framed by certain presuppositions and assumptions about human beings [ 10].
The starting point of this study is that FGM is associated with the social position of women, i.e., their location in recognized status and role structures, and that the practice is culturally embedded and therefore widely supported.
This population disproportionately experiences diet-related disease, and as such, researchers have consistently advocated research that examines the way in which food practices are culturally situated.
Ensuring ongoing screening practices requires culturally appropriate community support from respected elders, religious leaders, and breast cancer survivors.
The final version of the VAS-IBS including nine items needs to be further tested in clinical practice cross-culturally in women as well as in men.
An overall conclusion based on these surveys is that dietary practices and culturally determined lifestyle factors do not underlie the regional mortality differences [ 14].
Infant oral mutilation (IOM) differs from more recognized practices of culturally based dental modification in several important aspects: it is performed for perceived medical benefit; it is performed in infants who are incapable of consenting to the practice; and it can have very serious health consequences [ 2].
They also chose to practice in more culturally diverse and underserved areas, and the majority choose careers in primary care [ 10, 19, 20].
