Article ID: CBB855855418

A Place for Women Only: Health, Healing and the Divine at an Islamic Shrine in Central Asia (2021)

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This article analyses the relationships between traditional healing and biomedical practices found in contemporary Central Asia from the late Soviet period into the early twenty-first century. Gendered demarcation of space, the roles of women as caregivers and protectors of spiritual health in legends and emphasis on life cycle rituals position women at the centre of discussions of healing practices in Central Asia. Through historical and ethnographic work conducted in the Kyrgyz Republic, this article offers a view of women as practitioners and recipients of healing and as producers of knowledge about health and healing.

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Authors & Contributors
Brad Bolman
Marcello Costa
Rands, Gianetta
Beza Merid
R. Alan North
Rusterholz, Caroline
Concepts
Biomedicine
Health care
Women in medicine
Psychiatry
Medicine
Public health
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Australia
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Nagasaki (Japan)
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Syria
Institutions
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
University of Melbourne
University of London
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