![]() ![]() The course focuses on the role of the healer in the context of culture and will examine physicians, shamans, witch doctors, curanderos/as, midwives, wise men and women, and other healers. We examine illness causation and classification theories, diagnostic practices, therapeutic procedures, preventive care, the assumptions that underlie medical concepts and practices, and medicine's relationship to the social, cultural, and technological environments in which it is constructed and practiced. In Healers and Healing Practices we examine differences and similarities in the ways that people approach illness and healing by relying heavily on an abundance of examples from various cultures, including that of the United States. This course offers a cross cultural exploration of medical systems, healers and healing approaches. The article demonstrates how this secularism gathers around key concepts such as emergence, quantum physics, and physicalism, and is engaged in a permanent boundary work between conventional and alternative medicine, which is governed by the notion of holistic healing.Ĭourse Description: Every culture and society has had to deal with illness and thus has well-developed concepts about the healing process, healers, diagnosis, medical treatment, medical knowledge and healing practices. This particular secularism in the field of spiritual healing is based on transfers of knowledge and practices between subareas of a functionally differentiated society: esoteric and scientific cultural models shift into medicine, and continue into the area of health care and healing. ![]() Postsecularism not only puts public religion but also secularisms back on the agenda. ![]() The article develops the category of secularism to describe these propositional formations and contributes to the larger debate of postsecular societies. With discourse analysis discursive nodes and strategies are identified in international medical and psychological research journals at the boundary of CAM, traditional medicine, and psychosomatics from the last decade. Explanations of the effectiveness of spiritual healing by medical doctors and psychologists sometimes include ideological and non-scientific conclusions and concepts, which are similar to but also different from New Age science on healing. A particular formation can be observed in the discourse of spiritual healing and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). ![]()
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