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2015 | 5(8) | 107-120

Article title

Znachorka i wiedźma Orzeszkowej

Content

Title variants

EN
Orzeszkowa’s quack and witch

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
This article contains an analysis of Eliza Orzeszkowa’s novel Dziurdziowie with particular consideration of quackery as a social, ethical and psychological phenomenon. It also characterizes this issue on the basis of another novel by Orzeszkowa, namely Wiedźma (Witch) and the series of articles published in “Wisła” in the late eighties and nineties of the nineteen century. The subject of this article is the author’s specific positivist attitude to folk medicine and its reflection in these literary pieces. The interpretation is based on Orzeszkowa’s distinction between ‘quackery’ and ‘woman wizardry’, and their consequences for the representatives of these professions. This article also raises the issue of primitive mentality compared with widely understood otherness and emphasizes the quake’s ethical and legal responsibility for their paramedical activity.

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Year

Issue

Pages

107-120

Physical description

Dates

published
2019-10-01

Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Warszawski

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

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YADDA identifier

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