Abstract
ness concept. It is assumed that illness concepts with the highest agreement are culturally more salient than those with lower agreement. Important to the study of disease concepts are methods that allow a precise, quantifiable representation of disease concepts and facilitate hypothesis testing. In a cross-cultural study, D'Andrade, Quinn, Nerlove, and Romney (1972; D'Andrade 1973) explored the conceptional organization of the domain of illness terms for Mexican-Spanish speakers and American-English speakers. An initial assumption of the D'Andrade et al. (1972) study was that the properties that defined and distinguished diseases would be the most important characteristics of disease. However, the statements regarding the diseases seemed to represent preconditions or consequences of the diseases and were not the features that the informants used
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