How Ethnology (Mis)Treated Medicine: Little Regional History of Transformation of Traditional Medicine into Medical Anthropology Cover Image

Medicina u kandžama etnologije: mala regionalna povijest transformacije tradicijske medicine u medicinsku antropologiju
How Ethnology (Mis)Treated Medicine: Little Regional History of Transformation of Traditional Medicine into Medical Anthropology

Author(s): Tanja Bukovčan
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Health and medicine and law, 19th Century
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: medical anthropology; traditional medicine; medical pluralism; complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); bio-medicine;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the ways in which ethnology in Croatia dealt with medical systems, in the period in which ethnology’s disciplinary and political focus was different from that of socio-cultural anthropology and in the recent period, when the pathways of the two disciplines, in the regional setting the article discusses, are parallel. Furthermore, by using her own recent research on medical pluralism in Croatia as an example, the author is trying to justify the usage of medico-anthropological theories and methodology in contemporary research of medical realities.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 215-235
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Croatian