Author/Editor		Zaviršek, Darja
Title		"Če vidiš duhove, povej ljudem!" Nekaj miselnih modelov v antropologiji zdravja
Translated title		"If you see ghosts, tell the people!" Some models of thought in the anthropology of health
Type		članek
Source		Soc Delo
Vol. and No.		Letnik 34, št. 2
Publication year		1995
Volume		str. 109-18
Language		slo
Abstract		The article deals with the basic models of the anthropology of health, important for understanding mental health. The methodological framework consists of heterology, cultural relativism, the concepts of body and the sexes and intercultural research. The author points to the concepts of madness that are not sustained by intercultural comparisons, and to the analogy between a shaman-mediator and the mediating role of a nurse in the Western societies. The medical model of mental health does not take pain into account. According to risk analysis, the threat of unrecognised pain in a person within a psychiatric institution which rests on the disease model will increase the danger of self-injury. The latter may be visible or invisible in the sense of egomortification. The last part of the article is concerned with the experiences of the people who hear voices, and with various practices of dealing with voices in the world. With this innovation, the illness model moves away from the disease model and approaches the personal definitions of mental suffering.
Descriptors		SOCIAL WORK ANTHROPOLOGY