Title: A social acupuncture

Biography:

Vuk Stambolovic, Retired Associate Professor from the Institute for Hygiene and Social Medicine and he is Physician, Professor of Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Serbia & President of the Section of Traditional medicine of the Serbian Physicians Association

Abstract

Human beings are beings of development which is an inherent human feature oscillating between the phase of transition and the phase of cristallisation. Human beings are beings of relations as well. That means that development is influenced by social context. Adverse social context could lead development of both individual and community to halt and to ensuring entropy. That entropy could be confronted by social acupuncture which can stimulate the continuation of the individual and community development. The intervention by social acupuncture has to be free of recuing, it has to be based on relation and not on power, and it has to have open plan and not a closed agenda. A case study in four acts and epilogue will be presented in which the social acupuncture is applied to inhabitants of two Rome (Gipsy) settlements.