| The cross-cultural evidence on "extreme behaviors": what can it tell us? | |
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PMID: 19735251 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Many kinds of body/mind practices are capable of producing remarkable behaviors and altered body states. A typology of such behaviors and states, defined as observable and intentional "extreme" alterations to the body, is presented. Epistemological and methodological issues are discussed: limitations of observational data, and role of meaning, intentionality, and consciousness. Rapprochement between Western medicine and Indo-Tibetan medicine requires rethinking biomedicine's radical grounding in physicality and reliance on "evidence-based medicine," and guarding against an ethnocentric Western intellectual hegemony motivating medical science and clinical practice to colonize and subvert non-Western traditions like Indo-Tibetan Buddhist medicine. |
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Authors:
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Jean E Jackson |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume: 1172 ISSN: 1749-6632 ISO Abbreviation: Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. Publication Date: 2009 Aug |
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Created Date: 2009-09-08 Completed Date: 2009-09-25 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7506858 Medline TA: Ann N Y Acad Sci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 270-7 Citation Subset: IM |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. jjackson@mit.edu |
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Behavior
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physiology* Brazil Cognition / physiology* Consciousness / physiology Cross-Cultural Comparison Evidence-Based Medicine / methods* Humans India Medicine, Traditional Tibet |
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