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Comforting the (Exile) Afflicted in Croatia - Around and Beyond the Analytical Approaches of Critical Medical Anthropology

Recently, there has been a growing recognition that any research conducted with those that suffer should definitely be critical of the continuing policy of group equalizing, either in relation to ones ethnicity of any other salient parameter. However, it is seldom that this critical knowledge is applied from "outsiders" when negation and re-evaluation of this history, especially concerning the medical systems and their historical development within nations and populations, is used. The propositions within this paper are given on the basis of knowledge gained in the course of a long-term study dedicated to the exiled in Croatia, and are tightly linked to theoretical perspectives of critical medical anthropology, yet exceed its limits. Critical medical anthropology deeply engage in ongoing debates that stress how there needs to be more understanding of the necessity to study the wider social context is unachievable without the new grounds of dialogue being created between professionals and researchers of all disciplines and equally - regardless whether they are "insiders" of "outsiders" to the problem in focus. The knowledge about developments in developing countries, and especially of countries in past-war transition cannot be solely built on strategies of globality and theoretical explorations disconnected from people and their experiences on ground, especially when they concern the delicate issues of social and health care. Hopingly, the given examples in this paper will add to dialogues of corrective kind that should be raised more often.

Critical Medical Anthropology; Health; Exile

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