Prehajanje praks zdravljenja in z zdravjem povezanih konceptov med kontinenti in kulturami: Joga v Evropi, anoreksija v Aziji

Processes of exchange of healing practices and health-related concepts between continents and cultures: yoga in Europe and anorexia in Asia.
The text seeks an answer (answers) to the question how, and in what manner, health-related practices and concepts travel between Asia and Europe. The first part of the article discusses the path of yoga, one of healing practices in India, to Great Britain. Based on the author’s fieldwork research carried out in northern India in 2011, the second part of the paper examines a Western biomedical concept, namely an eating disorder, which has allegedly spread to India from the West. Both examples demonstrate that medical practices and concepts continuously travel between continents, states, and cultures, and are inevitably transformed during the process.
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Avtorica v članku išče odgovor(e) na vprašanje, na kakšne načine z zdravjem povezani prakse in koncepti prehajajo iz Azije v Evropo ter nazaj. V prvem delu opisuje primer prehajanja joge kot ene od zdravilnih praks iz Indije v Veliko Britanijo. V drugem delu obravnava enega od zahodnih biomedicinskih konceptov, namreč motnje prehranjevanja, ki naj bi se širili iz zahodnega sveta v Indijo. Pri slednjem predstavi tudi lastno terensko delo, ki ga je opravljala leta 2011 v severni Indiji. Oba primera dokazujeta, da zdravstvene prakse in koncepti nenehno prehajajo med kontinenti, džavami in kulturami, pri tem pa se nujno tudi spremenijo.