Электронная книга: Isabelle Stengers «Doctors and Healers»

Doctors and Healers

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think inradically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.

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Isabelle Stengers

Professor Isabelle Stengers (born 1949), is a Belgian philosopher and is the daughter of the historian Jean Stengers. She graduated in chemistry at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Biography

Professor Stengers is arguably one of the most penetrating and celebrated thinkers writing about the philosophy of science today. Stengers holds her Associate Professorship in the Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993. Stengers has written extensively on Anglo-American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, other work has included Continental philosophers such as Michel Serres and Gilbert Simondon. Stengers is an accomplished philosopher in her own right; however, noteworthy collaborators include Leon Chertok, Ilya Prigogine, and Bruno Latour.

Partial Bibliography

* "La Nouvelle Alliance" (1979), together with Ilya Prigogine
* "Order out of Chaos" (1984), together with Ilya Prigogine
* Stengers I, "The Invention of Modern Science", Smith D.W (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2000)
* Stengers I, "Power and Invention: Situating Science", Bains P (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1997)

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