L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies

The history of those who suffer from illness may integrate anthropology in two ways. First, anthropology can be used as method and a mode of questioning. In writing history of the sick, the historian must grasp a particular physiological situation and its social consequences in everyday life. He mus...

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Main Author: Pauline Labey
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2010-05-01
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/1985
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description The history of those who suffer from illness may integrate anthropology in two ways. First, anthropology can be used as method and a mode of questioning. In writing history of the sick, the historian must grasp a particular physiological situation and its social consequences in everyday life. He must question a society about its relationship with the body when it is affected by illness, and about what happens when an individual departs from the norm of health. Second, a history of the sick can use anthropology as a discourse, the product of a given period. In this case, anthropology is used as a subject of research. Combining practice and discourse, it is possible to apprehend individual consequences of an illness-event. This dual use of anthropology may clarify the spiritual and institutional consequences of illness in the central Middle Ages.
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L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies
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norm
sources of practice
doctrinal sources
medieval anthropology
title L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies
title_full L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies
title_fullStr L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies
title_full_unstemmed L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies
title_short L’histoire du malade. Croisement de deux anthropologies
title_sort l histoire du malade croisement de deux anthropologies
topic sickness
body (history of)
norm
sources of practice
doctrinal sources
medieval anthropology
url https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/1985
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