Igor Pietkiewicz

Culture, Religion, and Ethnomedicine

The Tibetan Diaspora in India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Culture, Religion, and Ethnomedicine discusses various interdependencies between culture, religion, and health with a concentration on Tibetan culture. Igor Pietkiewicz uses an example of the Tibetans in exile to explain how culture affects illness behavior, including perception of sickness and treatment methods, as well as the choice of an appropriate cure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841340
• ISBN-10: 0761841342
• Artikelnr.: 25693763

Autorenporträt

Igor Pietkiewicz, Ph.D., is a Polish psychotherapist and researcher at John Paul II Hospital in Krakow. He is lecturer at Jagiellonian University where he has designed and taught university courses on medical anthropology and thanatology.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Tibetan Culture, Religion,
and Acculturation Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Health and Illness Behaviors
Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Religion and Health Chapter 5 Chapter Four:
Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet and in Exile Chapter 6 Chapter Five: The
Traditional Tibetan System of Medicine in Tibet and in Exile Chapter 7
Chapter Six: Empirical Research Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Presenting and
Analyzing the Qualitative Data Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: Discussion and
Conclusions