Author/Editor		Telban, Borut
Title		Medical ethics and the body across cultures
Type		članek
Source		Anthropol Noteb
Vol. and No.		Letnik 8, št. 1
Publication year		2002
Volume		str. 30-40
Language		eng
Abstract		By comparing the Western biological, objectified and individualized conceptualization of the human body with the body as lived, experienced, conceptualized, and talked about by the members of different cultures, I would like to show how the European view of the body - based on reason, evolutionary theory, and biomedicine - is far from being universal. To impose, for example in medical ethics, concepts like the mechanical biological body on those people whose history, philosophy and religion did not take a European scientific course implies the imperialism of what is by some believed to be "universal". I intend to present several different examples from different societies and cultures (Western and non-Western) to show how historical changes, cultural values and social relations shape the experience of the human body, health and sickness, and how they situate suffering in local moral worlds.
Summary		S primerjanjem človekovega telesa, ki je v skladu z Zahodno znanostjo biološko zasnovan, objektiviziran in individualiziran, s telesom, ki ga živijo, izkusijo, konceptualizirajo in o njem govorijo predstavniki različnih kultur, bi avtor rad pokazal, da je evroameriški pogled na telo, ki je zasnovan na razumu, evolucionarni teoriji in biomedicini, daleč od univerzalnega. Pri vsiljevanju mehaničnega biološkega telesa na ljudi, katerih zgodovina, filozofija in religija niso sledile procesu, iz katerega se je razvila evropska znanost - na primer, pri medicinski etiki -, pomeni le novo obliko imperializma. V prispevku avtor predstavi več primerov razumevanja, pojmovanja in odnosa do človekovega telesa v različnih družbah in kulturah po svetu. Na ta način bi rad pokazal, kako zgodovinske spremembe, kulturne vrednote in socialni procesi oblikujejo izkušnjo človekovega telesa, zdravja in bolezni ter postavljajo trpljenje v lokalne moralne svetove.
Descriptors		ETHICS, MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS WOMEN'S RIGHTS HUMAN BODY TISSUE DONORS ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CANNIBALISM PREJUDICE