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Paper short abstract

In an action research project about five turning points on the way to health, the researcher, which is a former cancer patient and has employed alternatively two therapeutic systems from different worlds, tried to find out what kind of medicine is the right for him.

Paper long abstract

In my lecture I am going to present an action research project (french tradition), which is based on a biographical accessment. It is the analysation of the combination of two therapeutic systems, from different worlds, as used by me, a former cancer patient.

After a crisis period spanning nine months, during which I employed alternatively both the biomedicine in Austria and the oriental medicine in Uzbekistan, I realized five turning points. With these points I proceeded with my research, having them as objectives, finding answers to the following questions:

1) Which medicine is right for me?

2) To whom should I go for support?

By receiving feedback during the process from my professor and using the theory Salutogenese (Aaron Antonovsky) as well as medical anthropologycal theories to analyse the turning points, I am going to work out the answers.