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The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public HealthThe Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel

The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: The Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual... [This chapter analyses three aspects of spiritual healing in Korea and Israel: the cosmological perspectives on illness, the roles of healers and patients in the treatment, and how spiritual healers and modern doctors view each other. Comparing spiritual folk medicine in a strictly monotheistic society and a multi-religious polytheistic culture reveals that the tensions between modern medicine and spiritual healing relate in both cultures mostly to biopolitics. Institutional concerns and the regulation of bodies and health are more central than religious supernatural concerns. The contradiction between scientific and vernacular medicine does not exist in the worldview of the interviewed healers. They are legitimized at the grassroots level and enjoy the cultural and financial support of many patients in the hypermodern urban centres where they live and work.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public HealthThe Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
Sarfati, Liora
The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health — May 4, 2023
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-25591-5
Pages
185 –205
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-25592-2_10
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Abstract

[This chapter analyses three aspects of spiritual healing in Korea and Israel: the cosmological perspectives on illness, the roles of healers and patients in the treatment, and how spiritual healers and modern doctors view each other. Comparing spiritual folk medicine in a strictly monotheistic society and a multi-religious polytheistic culture reveals that the tensions between modern medicine and spiritual healing relate in both cultures mostly to biopolitics. Institutional concerns and the regulation of bodies and health are more central than religious supernatural concerns. The contradiction between scientific and vernacular medicine does not exist in the worldview of the interviewed healers. They are legitimized at the grassroots level and enjoy the cultural and financial support of many patients in the hypermodern urban centres where they live and work.]

Published: May 4, 2023

Keywords: Spiritual healing; Biopolitics; South Korea; Shamans; Israel; Rabbis

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