Sağlik Ve Kültür’ün Buluştuğu Alan: Tibbi Antropoloji
The Field in which Health and Culture Meets: Medical Anthropology
Author(s): Melike KaplanSubject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Medical Anthropology; Traditional medicine; Health and culture;
Summary/Abstract: This article comparatively evaluates the studies of medical anthropology from past to today. I discuss that “health” and “illness” terms are described as a cultural context. This article based upon different perceptions of ethno-medicine, folk-medicine and traditional medicine in different societies. Traditional and modern medical practices and process, health and illness as a cultural context have became contemporary subjects for different branches of social sciences. Folk-medicine basing on relations between health and culture is one of the basic fields of Folklore.
Journal: Folklor/Edebiyat
- Issue Year: 16/2010
- Issue No: 64
- Page Range: 225-235
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Turkish