Kiistellyt tiet terveyteen: Parantamisen monimuotoisuus globaalihistoriassa

• Format: eBook
• Language: Finnish
• Published: Helsinki, Finland Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2017
• Series: Historiallisia Tutkimuksia
• Subjects: Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies; Public health and preventive medicine; Social and cultural anthropology; Social and cultural history; cultural anthropology; folk medicine; healing; medical anthropology; public health; sociocultural factors
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• ISBN: 9789522229083;9789522228796; ht.273
• Access: Open Access

"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. "