The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures
Every culture has rules for translating signs into symptoms, for linking symptomatologies to etiologies and interventions, and for using the evidence provided by interventions to confirm translations and legitimize outcomes. The path a person follows from translation to socially significant outcome...
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description | Every culture has rules for translating signs into symptoms, for linking symptomatologies to etiologies and interventions, and for using the evidence provided by interventions to confirm translations and legitimize outcomes. The path a person follows from translation to socially significant outcome constitutes his sickness (Allan Young 1982. p. 270). |
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spelling | doaj.art-18ea474ffddd4699bde7498ddf4a60e22022-12-21T22:49:04ZengElsevierJournal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine0975-94762011-01-01211420The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical culturesMaarten BodeEvery culture has rules for translating signs into symptoms, for linking symptomatologies to etiologies and interventions, and for using the evidence provided by interventions to confirm translations and legitimize outcomes. The path a person follows from translation to socially significant outcome constitutes his sickness (Allan Young 1982. p. 270).http://www.jaim.in/article.asp?issn=0975-9476;year=2011;volume=2;issue=1;spage=14;epage=20;aulast=BodeAyurvedabiomedicinetheoretical medicine |
spellingShingle | Maarten Bode The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine Ayurveda biomedicine theoretical medicine |
title | The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures |
title_full | The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures |
title_fullStr | The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures |
title_full_unstemmed | The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures |
title_short | The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures |
title_sort | transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures |
topic | Ayurveda biomedicine theoretical medicine |
url | http://www.jaim.in/article.asp?issn=0975-9476;year=2011;volume=2;issue=1;spage=14;epage=20;aulast=Bode |
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