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    "pk": 30993,
    "title": "Explanations of Nutritional Concepts: Role of Cultural and Biomedical Theories",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In this paper, we explore the role of cultural and biomedical theories in the explanations of complex nutritional concepts by lay-people. Subjects were East Indian mothers who are exposed to both the traditional Ayurdevic and modem biomedical theories of health and disease in their environment. Subjects' explanations of nutritional concepts after being shown pictures of children suffering from childhood nutritional deficiency diseases contained a modified form of concepts from both models of health practice. The number of biomedical concepts used increased with education level. However, detailed examination of knowledge structures showed that the biomedical concepts were interpreted within the traditional theory of Ayurveda rather than modem medical theory, resulting in a weak restructuring of knowledge with education. Thus only the biomedical concepts which are readily interpretable within the pre-existing traditional theory, are used in everyday functioning. Both the \"expert\" older mothers who practiced traditional nutrition, and the \"expert\" nutritional consultants, with university degrees in nutrition used similar strategy of forward reasoning in diagnosing the problem. The difference was in the use of knowledge base; the former used a socialized form of Ayuveda and the latter used biomedical knowledge.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0309d1jb",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Malathi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sivaramakrishnan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Vimla",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Patel",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1990-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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