Healing thyself: A Korean shaman's afflictions

Comportamento alimentar e imagem corporal entre estudantes de medicina

“…Alguns autores consideram o ethos do "curador ferido" relevante para a medicina contemporânea [52][53][54] e propõem um modelo de medicina como a arte de compreensão e de diálogo constituído pelo conhecimento, saber fazer e saber ser, retomando a noção de um modelo do médico como um curador ferido, capaz de ativar a autocura do paciente, considerando importante a experiência de adoecimento vivenciada, somada aos conhecimentos e técnicas dos próprios médicos e estudantes de Medicina 55 .…”

Assess the Effects of Culturally Relevant Intervention on Breast Cancer Knowledge, Beliefs, and Mammography Use Among Korean American Women

“…Koreans traditionally believe that problems in body and/or mind are not caused by clinically known factors for disease, but by an imbalance between positive and negative forces in the body from long-lasting anger, misconduct, negative thinking/attitude, or psychological stress. Thus, Koreans believe that each person is responsible for having a clean mind and body to maintain health and prevent diseases (including cancer) (42-43). Contrarily, under the Western belief of personal responsibility for one's own health and illness, a woman knows best about her own body and bodily function and when to seek medical assistance (44-45).…”

“…However, the association of fatalistic views of breast cancer and mammography use has not been explored for KA women. Koreans believe that mystical and supernatural powers are behind all events in daily life and that a person becomes ill from fate, devil's mischief, temporary separation of soul and body, misfortune, or past sins (42-43). Under this belief, most Koreans believe that if a woman gets breast cancer, it was meant to be and that is the way the woman is meant to die.…”

Feasibility Study: Colorectal Cancer Related Educational Program for Korean Americans

“…For Korean traditional culture-specific variables, we incorporated modesty, fatalism and preventive health orientation into our educational components considering the traditional Korean cultural norms/virtues of men and women (gender role), fatalistic view of life events (fatalism) and health illness concept (preventive health orientation) that may influence FOBT completion regardless of their birthplace (U.S. or Korea) due to ethnic homogeneity (Lee et al, 2000;Shin et al, 2000;Im and Lipson, 1997;Kendall, 1988;Yu and Phillips, 1983;Kim and Hum, 1988;Park and Cho, 1995;Park, 1987;Sohn and Harada, 2005). Among Koreans, each gender has a distinct status and role within society: A man should be the head of the household, provider and ruler, as authority rests only with the men to preserve the familial institution (Park and Cho, 1995).…”

“…Koreans traditionally believe that mystical and supernatural powers are behind all events in daily life and that a person becomes ill due to fate, temporary separation of soul and body, or past sins (Kendall, 1988). Under this predetermined fatalistic view of life events, most Koreans would not participate in FOBT completion because screening would not prevent the person from developing CRC; whether the person finds out about having CRC in an early or later stage would not matter because the person is meant to die from CRC as a predetermined fate of fortune regardless of the many different options for treatment.…”