Mol notes (21) that "Western cultures live their 'illnesses' [...] by taking them to be 'diseases'"
23-4: "[Robert] Pool makes it clear that if an anthropologist goes out to study 'illness' as if it were the lay theory of a 'disease' that doctors talk about in medical terms, he is trapped from the beginning. He is trapped in 'disease' language. Why would laypeople [...] delineate entities in their own talk that nicely parallel the categories of Western medicine? To presume this is to presume that the disease categories of Western medicine are 'natural.'"