Alternative Medicine and Magical Thinking.

Prof. Balaklytskyi М.

V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

The 21th century witnesses a boom of ‘alternative medicine’, i.e. medicine-man practices, that draw their origins from the times of old. The so called ‘alternative medicine’ prospers, when academic medicine fails—in the cases of complex, chronic, age diseases, lack of financing or social crises. «Alternative medicine» is based on magical thinking. The latter is grounded on passion for health despite the objective life setting. A representative of academic medicine, as usual, is called to oppose magical thinking with education, prophylactics, and personal example.

Key Words: academic medicine, people’s, mystic, alternative medicine, magical thinking.

https://dx.doi.org/10.15407/internalmed2020.02b.041

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Балаклицкий, М.А. Народная медицина и магическое мышление // Східноєвропейський журнал внутрішньої та сімейної медицини. – 2020. – №2Б (14) Спецвипуск. – С. 41-43. doi: 10.15407/internalmed2020.02b.041

Balaklytskyi МA. [Alternative Medicine and Magical Thinking]. Shidnoevr. z. vnutr. simejnoi med. 2020;2b(14):41-43. Russian. doi: 10.15407/internalmed2020.02b.041

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