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When cancer patients meet bioenergist: case study from Croatia

After the 1990-ies, once exclusively state funded health care system in Croatia was becoming less state funded and much more market oriented and, as the consequence, expensive to the end-users, the patients. It was a process, lasting for several years, so the change did not come suddenly, but the sheer idea that you have to pay for just going to the GP or for medicines, was quite surprising, almost shocking for most of the people. Simultaneously, and maybe partly because of this, the non-biomedical systems were also more ‘loud’ and more visible, ranging from folk healers, herbalists, through exorcists (some belonging to the Catholic church), and bioenergy practitioners to the practitioners of the established non-Western medical systems such as ayurveda or acupuncture, accompanied by homeopathy, reiki, other relaxation and stress relieving techniques. Since at the moment there is no Law governing complementary and alternative medicine in Croatia, the multitude of healers, practitioners, techniques, philosophies and approaches is mind-boggling.The combination of the two processes resulted, among other things, in rising medical pluralism.

post-socialism, medical systems, transition

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