Through an Hourglass. Re-thinking Ethnography of the Relationship between Biomedicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Croatia

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Bukovčan, Tanja. (2013). Through an Hourglass. Re-thinking Ethnography of the Relationship between Biomedicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Croatia. Etnološka tribina, 43(36). pp. 90-98. ISSN 0351-1944

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Abstract

This paper is based on author’s three-year research on the choices patients make when facing an illness, on the decisions they make in choosing a particular medical system and medical treatment, and on the reasons of the increasing popularity of complementary and alternative medical practices in contemporary Croatia. Starting from the patients’ narratives and their embodied experience as presented through heir encounters with illness, the paper discusses and analyzes the methodological, theoretical and epistemological realities of the co-existence of biomedicine and complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	complementary and alternative medicine, activism, ethnography, Croatia, medical anthropology, phenomenology
Subjects:	Ethnology and cultural anthropology
Departments:	Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2017 10:21
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2017 10:21
URI:	http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/8570

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