Praxis ist mehr als Praktiken – Warum moderne Ärzte und spirituelle Heiler im Prinzip das Gleiche tun

What is it about?

Spiritual healers and modern doctors both have their own epistemological framings that establish their practices. Both medical epistemes are consistent. However, their conventionalised practices are disturbed or interrupted in actual praxis. Practitioner of both epistemes have common ways to deal with such annoyances but also failures need to be covered by conventionalised justifications.

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Why is it important?

The article is a contribution to theories of praxis and especially with regard to respective empirical approaches. This article might also help to see that biomedical and alternative medicine both have their realm in which they are successful but also fail.