Always Into the scientific medical knowledge has contributed to the improvement of the living conditions of human beings. But in recent fiftieth the relationship between science and its objects has changed: it is revealed the essential role played by culture in relation to knowledge.
As document images and interviews contained in the unit, no object of knowledge is given to the outside of the culture that knows him, especially in the context relating to health.
Tullio Seppilli , a professor of medical anthropology, highlights the difficulties faced by anthropologists in identifying the boundary between religiosity and pathology in medical practices and empirical popular. François Lupu , medical anthropologist, focuses the need to consider the code developed by each culture in relation to the signs of the disease. The different modes of cataloging disease can be defined as ‘cultural syndromes’. Antonio Guerci, human biologist, scholar etnomedicina , emphasizes the difficulty of understanding and translation of concepts between different health systems , for example, between Western medicine and traditional Chinese.
As document images and interviews contained in the unit, no object of knowledge is given to the outside of the culture that knows him, especially in the context relating to health.
Tullio Seppilli , a professor of medical anthropology, highlights the difficulties faced by anthropologists in identifying the boundary between religiosity and pathology in medical practices and empirical popular. François Lupu , medical anthropologist, focuses the need to consider the code developed by each culture in relation to the signs of the disease. The different modes of cataloging disease can be defined as ‘cultural syndromes’. Antonio Guerci, human biologist, scholar etnomedicina , emphasizes the difficulty of understanding and translation of concepts between different health systems , for example, between Western medicine and traditional Chinese.
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