Özet:

When we look at the cultural structures of societies, we see many elements in them. One of these elements is public medicine. Since the public medicine of each society is formed in the framework of its own cultural, geographical and economic conditions, the therapeutic practices in this field have manifested themselves in different ways in different societies. Thro history, it is seen that these practices that people try and apply to get rid of the diseases they are exposed to for various reasons are also performed by people known and recognized as "protectional" identity. In public medicine, it is called the "protect" of the person who is believed to have the ability and ability to cure any kind of disease. These persons, which are often considered to have superior talents in society, and which are also culted according to their position due to these qualities, have fulfilled their needs to be healthy by allowing people to get rid of diseases. Diseases arising from visible material causes are often treated by persons who use the plant, mines and animals of the site as a medicine, the equivalent of the current doctor called the worker, the worker. It is believed that the evil spirits are under the control and those with unknown disorders, such as mental disorders and mental illnesses, are also treated by the name of "kam, shaman" and "baksis" in the Islamic period, the form of the Central Asian communism which has been reached to this day, and the providers of the "ocak" located almost everywhere in Anatolia, and the religious-magical methods have treated the diseases according to the abilities they have, and they are still doing. In addition, it is also seen that in the Turkish society it is believed to have the knowledge of spiritual values, their treatments or magical words are applied to suppliers who read and swallow to the patients and are generally referred to as "reader/reader". The providers, who continue to exist and are practicers of therapeutic methods in the traditional public medicine in the face of any change that is experienced, appear to have the effect of cultural adaptation in the designation of each. In ancient Turkish societies, it is possible to say that there are many types of public physicians that start with the people called shaman or kam and are even considered as a profession according to their period or in the present form of expression.

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