Geiselhart K (2018)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2018
Book Volume: 37
Pages Range: 178-192
Journal Issue: 2
DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2018.144377
The WHO suggests integrating traditional health practices into national public health systems. However, cooperation between both systems of healing seldom works. Traditional healing practices often attract accusations of irrationality and mysticism. From a scientific point of view, inferences based on spirituality are not considered as having the same significance as those drawing on rational thinking. However, spiritual intuition is in line with abductive reasoning, which is a core element across all systems of thinking and central to the development of new hypotheses in the sciences. Traditional healing practices in Botswana serve to present the notion of transrationality, which appreciates the specific character of spiritual healing and thus may aid in establishing better cooperation between traditional and modern health practitioners.
APA:
Geiselhart, K. (2018). Reasoning matters: Transrational traits of healing in competing medical epistemes in Botswana. South African Journal of Philosophy, 37(2), 178-192. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2018.144377
MLA:
Geiselhart, Klaus. "Reasoning matters: Transrational traits of healing in competing medical epistemes in Botswana." South African Journal of Philosophy 37.2 (2018): 178-192.
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