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Practical logics: the shapes and lessons of popular medical knowledge and practice -- examples from Vietnam and Indigenous Australia

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Popular medical knowledge and practice exist in forms that people are able to remember, and that they use to manage their daily lives. This knowledge is fundamentally practical and relates to the patterns of everyday life and the rhythms of the body. The broad "polythetic" concepts of this knowledge system are typically drawn from both dominant and other medical knowledges, and combined in pragmatic, mnemonic ways that constitute a hybrid system. Such popular medical knowledge is attuned to local, family and cultural patterns of medical and other authority, and to the personal dispositions and environmental contexts of its users. Health promoters and educators who understand these formal, embodied and familiar dimensions of popular knowledge can potentially mimic this knowledge system, making their interventions a sustainable part of everyday family life.

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  • Craig, David, 2000. "Practical logics: the shapes and lessons of popular medical knowledge and practice -- examples from Vietnam and Indigenous Australia," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 51(5), pages 703-711, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:51:y:2000:i:5:p:703-711
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    1. Knudsen, L. G. & Samuelsen, H. & Phuc, P. D. & Hiep, N. T. & Anh, N. & Raschid-Sally, Liqa & Dalsgaard, A. & Konradsen, F., 2006. "The fear of bad smell: Health risk awareness related to using waste in agricultural production in Vietnam," Conference Papers h038721, International Water Management Institute.
    2. S. Edwards & M. Heinrich, 2006. "Redressing cultural erosion and ecological decline in a far North Queensland aboriginal community (Australia): the Aurukun ethnobiology database project," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 8(4), pages 569-583, November.
    3. Volker Scheid, 2002. "Remodeling the Arsenal of Chinese Medicine: Shared Pasts, Alternative Futures," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 583(1), pages 136-159, September.

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