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Treatment, healing, curing. The understanding of health and illness in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition versus Western science
Author(s): Tomasz SzymoszynSubject(s): Anthropology, Cultural history, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: disease; healing; treatment; systems of meaning; medicalization of society;
Summary/Abstract: In this article I present illness and health as a cultural phenomenon, and not an objectively defined medical category. I analyze the concepts of healing, curing and medical treatment in relation to the systems of meanings created in the cultural contexts of the West and Tibet and in the anthropological sciences.
Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 177-199
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish