The Defensive Strategies of Czech and Ukrainian Residents in the Ukraine against the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

0469193 - EÚ 2017 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Beranská, Veronika - Uherek, Zdeněk
The Defensive Strategies of Czech and Ukrainian Residents in the Ukraine against the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident.
Český lid = Czech Ethnological Journal. Roč. 103, č. 1 (2016), s. 85-101. ISSN 0009-0794. E-ISSN 2570-9216
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : medical anthropology * Ukraine * Chernobyl region * folk healing
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
Method of publishing: Open access
http://ceskylid.avcr.cz/media/articles/466/submission/original/466-1241-1-SM.pdf

The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the situation of residents in the surroundings of the Chernobyl power plant, of which a part resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text indicated the logic of the adaptation mechanisms of the group of people to the new circumstances and their mobilization of the cognitive potential. Other than the information, the text shows the process, how “human wisdom” on health and disease is formed and adapts to the new, in this case extreme, situation.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0267174