ISSN:
0145-9740
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Medical anthropology : cross-cultural studies in health and illness
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 35, No. 3 (2016), p. 209
DDC:
570
Abstract:
This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructionist lens, which traces how all entities are both constructed and real, a non-secular medical anthropology would insist that when deities are part of medical practice, they are integral to analysis. Importantly then, within the symmetrical nature of this same constructionist lens, biomedical entities like germs and petri dishes need to be accounted for just as much as deities.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Taylor & Francis 2016
DOI:
10.1080/01459740.2015.1118100
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2015.1118100
URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26930040
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1788247672
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