National Identity and Invented Tradition: The Rehabilitation of Traditional Medicine in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
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This paper will show how Uzbekistan's Soviet heritage and new political, social and economic conditions following its independence are giving birth to " alternative " forms of medical practice. The emergence of a new category of formally trained physicians who are also traditional healers deserves special attention, and will be approached in a holistic way as a result of local traditions, beliefs, and cultural as well as social representations. In addition, since 1999, the Uzbek government has been attempting to institutionalize traditional medicine, primarily through the re-appropriation of ancient principles inherited from Avicenna (Ibn Sina), in a comprehensive strategy to reconstruct national identity. Only registered public health physicians with a family heritage or training in traditional medicine (tabib) are authorized to practice traditional medicine in allopathic institutions and are officially recognized as " physician-tabib " .
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