HIST 1310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Relative Risk, Intern Academy, Alternative Medicine
Document Summary
Illness: illness: vary amongst cultures; being unwell , a culture could have an illness: a state of being unwell with your family, disease. Countervailing action: naturalistic ethnomedical system: disease is explained by the impersonal actions of systems usually based on old historical systems of great civilizations ying and yang balance, hot/cold systems, the cure? restore balance or system equilibrium. Ritual (supervised by not properly honored shaman) to placate and honor ancestors. Derived from five elements: space, air, fire, water, earth: healing involves the process of finding the imbalances and prescribing various therapies including herbal to restore the balance, khmer (cambodia, causes of disease/illness include. General imbalance of natural forces within the body. Treaters are called kruu khmer and treatments include: dipping a coin in a mentholated medicine and rubbing it away from the center of the body, scarring procedures, massage, medicinal plants, spiritual healing.
