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- Title
The Cross-Cultural Evidence on “Extreme Behaviors”.
- Authors
Jackson, Jean E.
- Abstract
Many kinds of body/mind practices are capable of producing remarkable behaviors and altered body states. A typology of such behaviors and states, defined as observable and intentional “extreme” alterations to the body, is presented. Epistemological and methodological issues are discussed: limitations of observational data, and role of meaning, intentionality, and consciousness. Rapprochement between Western medicine and Indo-Tibetan medicine requires rethinking biomedicine's radical grounding in physicality and reliance on “evidence-based medicine,” and guarding against an ethnocentric Western intellectual hegemony motivating medical science and clinical practice to colonize and subvert non-Western traditions like Indo-Tibetan Buddhist medicine.
- Subjects
MENTAL discipline; BUDDHIST medicine; CROSS-cultural studies; PSYCHOLOGICAL typologies; CONSCIOUSNESS; PAIN; THEORY of knowledge; METHODOLOGY
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, Vol 1172, p270
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04536.x