Healing Cultures : The Sri Lankan Experience / Nirekha De Silva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Silva, Nirekha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine--Social aspects.

Alternative medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book showcases the diverse range of healing cultures, and explores how government action can have an impact through determining, promoting, protecting or destroying traditional cultural aspects of healing and wellbeing, based on a case study of Sri Lanka. It argues that diverse forms of healing practices matter not only because of their value in the health and wellbeing of the community, but also because they strongly contribute towards the intangible cultural heritage of the country. Identifying the diverse forms of healing practices existing in the country and the role of the existing regulatory mechanisms determines the potential for protecting the diversity of healing. Despite Sri Lanka being historically rich in traditional knowledge and expression, very little, if anything, has been written on regulating traditional practices related to health and wellbeing in the country, a lacuna which this volume fills.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Contents

Summary

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

References

Annex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Silva, Nirekha De Healing Cultures

ISBN:

9781527531635