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Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment in Poland
The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland, not accepted by academic medicine, prompted the author to describe and interpret the social causes of this phenomenon and its diverse effects, as well as to forecast the future of such methods. These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3,500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy. The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness, health and medicine. The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers.
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Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment in Poland
The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland, not accepted by academic medicine, prompted the author to describe and interpret the social causes of this phenomenon and its diverse effects, as well as to forecast the future of such methods. These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3,500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy. The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness, health and medicine. The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers.
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Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment in Poland

Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment in Poland

by Wlodzimierz Piatkowski
Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment in Poland

Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment in Poland

by Wlodzimierz Piatkowski

Overview

The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland, not accepted by academic medicine, prompted the author to describe and interpret the social causes of this phenomenon and its diverse effects, as well as to forecast the future of such methods. These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3,500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy. The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness, health and medicine. The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631621905
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 02/23/2012
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Włodzimierz Piątkowski, associate professor, Department of Medical Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (Poland); Founder and Head of Department of Medical Sociology, Medical University, Lublin; elected national coordinator of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) in 1990.

Table of Contents

Contents: Non-Medical Healing Systems as a Sociological Phenomenon – Polish Folk Medical Systems and Self-Treatment - Continuity and Change – Therapies of Modern Healers - Specificity, Contexts and Interpretations.
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