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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Published in:Journal of ayurveda and integrative medicine 2011-01, Vol.2 (1), p.14-20
Main Author: Bode, Maarten
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ayurveda
biomedicine
Demographic aspects
Diseases
India
Medicine, Ayurvedic
Review
Social aspects
theoretical medicine
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Summary: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).
ISSN:0975-9476
0976-2809
DOI:10.4103/0975-9476.78186