At the Edge of Modernity: Physicians, Priests and Healers (1940–1990)

The study is based on a field research developed in a few Romanian villages and is focused primarily on what peasants have to say about their relation with the sanitary system during the communist period. One preliminary conclusion of research is that people living in rural communities have a prevalently negative image about the modern sanitary system imposed by the state, consequently resorting to a parallel sanitary system that we may call traditional where all kinds of empirical or magical characters come into action.

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