Order and healing: the concept of order and its importance in the conceptualization of healing.
Medical Anthropology August 1, 1990 M L Lyon 18 citations
This paper concerns the notion of order and its role in the conceptualization of healing, and therefore its importance to healing itself. It proposes a model of healing in which order is central. The paper begins with an example drawn from Javanese mystical practices which are based upon the concept of the unity of the human and natural orders. The Javanese case provides a metaphor for an...