Polychronic knowledge of Health and Healthcare and Polythetic Culture : A Diachronic Perspective

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  • Rakesh Kumar  The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bangalore

Keywords:

Health, healthcare ,Archaeology, Paleoepidemiology and bio-cultural.a

Abstract

The geological stratigraphy and archaeological record documents the patterns of continuous adaptation of human being over generations. However, within the archaeological discourse, the concept of health and healthcare has always conversed as disease evidence or injuries in palaeopathology or occasional description of surgical involvement (interface between survival need and disease) as a mechanism or skill of healing. Bio-anthropologist and archaeologist used to find out causal explanation for the reasons of death from the excavated skeleton by practising paleopathology (which includes palaeohistology. Paleoepidemiology, DNA analysis, and differential Analysis). But fails to create an informal space where biology unites with culture. This theoretical paper will critically examine the possibilities to highlight the diluted concept of health and healthcare in the archaeological debate of the organic evolution with the help of community-based archaeology with the acknowledgement examination of material residue to remodel past health in present as a bio-cultural component.

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Rakesh Kumar "Polychronic knowledge of Health and Healthcare and Polythetic Culture : A Diachronic Perspective" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 8, Issue 3, pp.1092-1107, May-June-2021.