Pacjent i medycyna we współczesnym Kazachstanie: postawy wobec biomedycyny i medycyny komplementarnej
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2001
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Instytut Historii Nauki PAN
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The article discusses society's attitudes towards bio-medicine and
complementary medicine in Kazakhstan round the end of the 20th century.
It presents the transformation of the health-care system in independent
Kazakhstan and its influence on the health situation of the
population as well as public opinion on bio-medicine. Presented is a
broad spectrum of various fields of complementary medicine which
achieved great popularity especially during the 1990s. Among the reasons
for that growing popularity appears to be public disenchantment
with the collapsing state health-care system which is costly and ineffective.
At the same time, an important factor is the durability of traditional
beliefs of a magical type which is behind the wide use of nonconventional
magic-religious practices — spells and prayers. Overall
public socio-economic malaise and a fear of the future are conducive
to a general increase of interest in mystical beliefs and occult practices
as well as paranormal phenomena, and the flourishing of complementary
medicine naturally fits into that scheme.
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pacjent, biomedycyna, medycyna komplementarna, Kazachstan, Azja Środkowa
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Medycyna Nowożytna. Studia nad kulturą medyczną t. 8 (2), 2001, s. 175-198