الصحة و المرض في الثقافة التقليدية

الملخص EN

Anthropologists affirm that the environment in which the individual lives has a clear effect, and this effect is manifested in different levels(biologically, socially and culturally), so is contrast's from individual to individual and from community to another depending on the nature of the region in which the individual lives (i.e.

the individual).

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and the mode of culture dominate in the social milieu, thus the physical environment (the region Geography), the social environment (customs and traditions), lias a direct contribution to building the individuals perceptions about their social reality and the nature of their practices that constitute their daily social life.

Social perceptions of health and disease vary within human societies, where many interpretations and explanations will be made, anthropology has tried as a science to study by the human being and determine their perspectives within the community (between traditional interpretation and modern interpretation), where the anthropological perspective is concerned by the study of The relationship between culftiral lifestyles and different health definitions and types of responses to the disease, so that is based on the premise that cultural models and social lifestyles have a significant impact on our perception of disease, and our responses to it.

The culmral climate determines to a great extent and what we consider to be satisfactory cases and the causes attributed to such pathological cases, and those who have The legitimate authority to assess and determine them.