Medical syncretism in Yogyakarta

What do the practitioners get

Bibliographic Data

ID15369587
AuthorsRetna Siwi Padmawati (0000-0003-0744-5996, Universitas Gadjah Mada, corresponding author), Jens Seeberg (0000-0002-3572-2754, Universitas Gadjah Mada), Laksono Trisnantoro (0000-0001-8460-0414, Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Year2014
Volume14
IssueS1
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBMC Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458
PublisherBioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1186/1471-2458-14-s1-o32
OpenAlexW2058413974
LanguageEN
Citations received1

Background Medical syncretism involves activities conducted by healers who are mixing or blending different treatment strategy and explanatory models, is prevalent in the modern world. In medical pluralism, the pattern demonstrates that biomedicine exerts dominance over alternative medical system. The rigid clinical practice guidelines derived from the current best evidence of systematic reviews and meta-analyses involving many randomised-controlled trials (RCTs), have strictly guided physicians in managing patients’ diseases. In poor neighbourhood of Yogyakarta, it is not only the health seekers who combine biomedicine and traditional medicines, but some biomedical practitioners combined their techniques with alternative or traditional system. This paper aimed to describe why biomedical practitioners practicing medical syncretism; to explore what are their underlying practices; and what are their roles in medical pluralism

Alternative medicine · Biomedicine · Biostatistics · Epistemology · Medical education · Medical literature · Pathology · Pluralism (philosophy · Public health · Syncretism (linguistics · Traditional medicine · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Medicine · Nursing · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

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