CURE Quote
In 1949Claude Lévi Strauss suggested that shamanistic healing lay in “symbolic efficacy,” that is, the ability of the shaman to offer a spectacle that was a re – enactment of his own illness and cure. Symbols can be effective in very powerful and real ways, Lévi – Strauss argued – much as placebos can cure, or collective beliefs can spawn “ hysterical ”epidemics.
— Margaret Lock & Vinh-Kim Nguyen, An Anthropology of Biomedicine, 2010-
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Healing, Caring, Curing – Compared
Is healing curing? Is curing healing? Does caring cure? Does it heal? With the conceptual framework of the New Theory of Cure, we can look at these questions in a new light. In October 2023, I published a post on … Continue reading
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