RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bhaisajyaguru, Mantra, Asteroid Family
14 Feb 2017
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Cold, heat, wind and dampness in universe; balance of universe is thrown off and upset so is your body. Thursday january 19th, 2017 theories of healing and healers. First quiz due next week; readings for week 4 and split questions across the readings. Moving class to bsb 108 for next week. George foster"s etiologies of non-western medical systems (a) personalistic. Disease caused by the active purposeful intervention of an agent (human, nonhuman or supernatural); victim is being attacked aggressively (2) naturalistic. Systems explain illness in impersonal systemic terms (not from some angry god); from natural forces or conditions in the universe. Samuel argues: all human societies include elements of both and western biomedical system falls under the naturalistic category (miscarriages caused by body heat, but people say they angered someone) The success of the biomedical science has lead to blind endorsement to the naturalistic and positions the personalistic as pre-scientific and suitable for rejection.
