Alternativna medicina i alternativna tela
Alternative Medicine and Alternative Bodies

Summary/Abstract: Social roles and relations are constructed upon the conceptualization of one’s own and the bodies of others and their complex interaction with cultural patterns which exists in a society. Medicine is one domain of culture that offers evidence rich enough to help us understand the significance of the body as a cultural phenomenon. In the discourse of medicine and health issues, the body is understood as a subjective and intersubjective source of experience which constitutes specific representations and relations towards self and others. Adopting phenomenological and social constructivist approach, the intent was to analyse the interplay between different cultural meanings of body and diverse forms of knowledge of health and illness and their implications on particular sociocultural context. The interaction between two distinctive cultural settings of body, health and illness, and two dif erent explanatory frameworks - one Cartesian and the other Far Eastern, produces a range of transformations on the levels of conceptualization, utilisation and representation of the body in contemporary Serbia.

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