Traditional Medicine as ‘Medical Neglect’: Dilemmas in the Case Management of a Samoan Teenager with Diabetes

Advancing Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Social Research.

“…The culturally specific nature of explanatory models becomes especially apparent when a translation between cultures is attempted. Consider the case of a Samoan family, recent immigrants to Hawaii, who had difficulty making sense of western physicians' diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in their daughter (Krantzler 1987). It was explained that the patient had a problem with "sugar."…”