The wide-ranging methods of "Alternative Medicines" are based
on different philosophies about the relations between nature, the human
body, and the spirit. By infiltrating our society these methods transgress
national, geographic, and historical boundaries and have become a crucial
part of our postmodern culture.
Healing individuals implies understanding their relation to the social.
Effective medical practioners recognize that notions of healing differ
from culture to culture, that they intersect with ideas about difference
and spirituality. In order to comprehend such notions, one needs to
explore how different cultures transmit, alter, and question concepts
of health and illness and how these concepts are gendered. This is the
focus of our RIG. We are approaching our topic by addressing healing
as a total art.
For more information go to our website at:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~healarts/
Place and time of meetings are announced in the RIG
Update.
Contact: Dorothee Ostmeier, Susan Anderson, or Louis Bishop
