Traditional Medical Popular Culture in Boir Ahmad, Iran
Explanatory Models, Philosophies and Behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12896346 |
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| Authors | Erika Friedl (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-0719 • E-ISSN: 1746-0727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ame.2007.020203 |
| OpenAlex | W2088206311 |
| Language | EN |
Analysis of my ethnographic data on medical popular culture in tribal south-west Iran, mostly from 1965 to 1983, suggests several traditional explanatory models and philosophical tenets that guide approaches to health issues. Empirical knowledge of natural processes motivates people to observe their bodily requirements. The belief in God's autocratic power is tempered with God's purported wish that people use their abilities to take responsibility for their health, complicating the notion of 'fate'. The various models provide health management choices. Traditionally, patients and healers shared these models, acting on the same cosmological assumptions
Autocracy · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Explanatory model · Explanatory power · Political science · Positive economics · Power (physics · Sociology · Anthropology · Empathy and Medical Education · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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