| Title: | Medicine and Fairy Tales : Pohorje Fairy Tales as a Source about Diseases and Health |
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| Authors: | ID Ramšak, Mojca (Author) |
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| Files: |  PDF - Presentation file, download (2,75 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  IRRIS - Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment
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| Abstract: | Fairy tales are fascinating fantasies, but they also gave people a better understanding of serious issues such as illness, injury, and even death. The results of the analysis of a large corpus of a total of 1512 published fairy tales, legends, and other documentary prose about Pohorje, most of which date back to the 19th and the first half of 20th centuries, and whose origins were in a time when diseases were ubiquitous and poorly understood, show that the theme of health and disease rarely appear in these sources, however, when they do mention it, they refer specifically to the living conditions of people in the Pohorje Mountains, epidemics, social diseases, mental illnesses, congenital deformities, and ideas about the relationship between disease, the human body, and supernatural forces. One of the reasons for such explanations is the widespread absence of doctors in this hilly area. |
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| Keywords: | Pohorje, Slovenia, fairy tale, disease, health, history of medicine, medical humanities, narrative medicine |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2022 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | 655-680 |
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| Numbering: | 30, 3 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-31115  |
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| UDC: | 94(05), 398:615.89(497.47) |
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| ISSN on article: | 1318-0185 |
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| DOI: | 10.19233/AH.2022.28 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 137860611 |
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| Copyright: | Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji. CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 14.07.2026 |
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| Views: | 144 |
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