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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. This paper presents some conceptions of health and disease as perceived by Spanish-American villagers. An attempt is made to provide a framework which can be used to consider disease prevention, causation, diagnosis, treatment and the general health orientation of the Spanish-Americans. Emphasis is placed on the extra-human factors involved in these health conceptions and the suggestion is made that an important religious component is a central theme which must be taken into consideration when discussing etiological factors, preventive measures, diagnostic perceptions and therapeutic procedures as perceived by this population. Studies published in recent years have described in detail various

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