@article{Mogensen_2008, title={FRA SYGDOMSFORTOLKNING TIL SYGDOMSHÅNDTERING I DET ØSTLIGE UGANDA – OG I ANTROPOLOGIEN}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskriftetantropologi/article/view/106822}, DOI={10.7146/ta.v0i58.106822}, abstractNote={<p align="LEFT">Medical anthropologists have a long tradition for studying illness explanations</p> <p align="LEFT">offered by local informants as well as how these explanations influence health</p> <p align="LEFT">care seeking behaviour. In spite of anthropologists’ intentions to provide a cultural</p> <p align="LEFT">critique of biomedicine, many studies within medical anthropology actually end</p> <p align="LEFT">up confirming the implicit assumptions of the biomedical paradigm through their</p> <p align="LEFT">focus on local illness explanations and health care-seeking behaviour. Due to their</p> <p align="LEFT">interest in local illness explanations, anthropologists continue to be regarded as</p> <p align="LEFT">those who can identify exotic understandings of sickness. These explanations,</p> <p align="LEFT">it is then assumed, can be turned into more acceptable knowledge and appropriate</p> <p align="LEFT">behaviour through public health initiatives. This article asserts that one way</p> <p align="LEFT">to avoid such a trap is to recognize medical anthropology’s tendency to study</p> <p align="LEFT">the use of cognitive models as analytical framework: classification, semantic</p> <p align="LEFT">networks, explanatory models, narratives etc. There is a definite need for a shift</p> <p align="LEFT">from semantics to pragmatics, when one addresses the interpretation of illness.</p> <p align="LEFT">The discussion is based on fieldwork conducted primarily in Uganda, over the</p> <p align="LEFT">course of the past 15 years. The author’s changes in perspective emerge from</p> <p align="LEFT">developments in anthropology, especially medical anthropology, during this time</p> <p>period.</p> <p> </p>}, number={58}, journal={Tidsskriftet Antropologi}, author={Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard}, year={2008}, month={dec.} }