Disease and people: cultural archetypes of Russians' medical experience
The problem of man's relationship to the traditional culture of the disease is studied on a material of the East Slavic mythology. Illness as a demonic element is considered in terms of its mode of interaction, contact and conflict with the world of people. Inside the traditional picture of the world formed notions of normativity health and marginality diseases related to the disease as a foreign agent, recognition of the value of some ritual practices that have a preventive sense.