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oapen-20.500.12657-311112021-11-12T16:33:57Z Kiistellyt tiet terveyteen: Parantamisen monimuotoisuus globaalihistoriassa Kananoja, Kalle Hokkanen, Markku cultural anthropology healing medical anthropology public health sociocultural factors folk medicine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MX Complementary medicine "Health and healing have been central concerns throughout human history. Individuals and societies have devised multiple ways to health. Healing practices have often been linked to questions of knowledge, power, politics, and morals. The limits of acceptable healing have been contested by men and women, priests and doctors, elites and commoners, indigenous peoples and colonialists. Successful healers have sometimes been labeled as witches, quacks, or dangerous political agitators. The contributions in this volume concentrate on healing in global history with case studies about Finland, southern Asia and Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and North America. They discuss medical pluralism and consider the arguments for and against individual healers and different healing systems. The authors focus on the popularity of medical systems, the appropriation and adoption of healing practices in cross-cultural contexts, and the prohibition of certain forms of healing. " 2017-10-18 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:24:15Z 2020-04-01T13:24:15Z 2017 book 638232 OCN: 1030816491 0073-2559 9789522229083;9789522228796 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31111 fin Historiallisia Tutkimuksia application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 638232.pdf 10.21435/ht.273 Finnish Literature Society / SKS 10.21435/ht.273 10.21435/ht.273 51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f 4443031d-be70-4b63-9046-500c2be77ee4 9789522229083;9789522228796 273 356 Helsinki, Finland Kirjastokonsortio Aleksandria and SKS open access
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"Health and healing have been central concerns throughout human history. Individuals and societies have devised multiple ways to health. Healing practices have often been linked to questions of knowledge, power, politics, and morals. The limits of acceptable healing have been contested by men and women, priests and doctors, elites and commoners, indigenous peoples and colonialists. Successful healers have sometimes been labeled as witches, quacks, or dangerous political agitators. The contributions in this volume concentrate on healing in global history with case studies about Finland, southern Asia and Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and North America. They discuss medical pluralism and consider the arguments for and against individual healers and different healing systems. The authors focus on the popularity of medical systems, the appropriation and adoption of healing practices in cross-cultural contexts, and the prohibition of certain forms of healing.
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