Screen LibraryMedical anthropology /
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| Published: |
De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1976 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
World anthropology
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110807509 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110807509.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (480pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110807509（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | GN296 |
| CLC: | R-05 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- SECTION ONE: Native Cultural Aspects of Healing -- Introduction -- Witchcraft, the Shaman, and Active Pharmacopoeia -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Body and Spirit among the Sanum (Yanoama) of North Brazil -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes -- Social Basis of Illness: A Search for Therapeutic Meaning -- Snakebite Cure among the Rama Indians of Nicaragua -- The Traditional Folk Medicine of Taos, New Mexico -- Different Approaches to Medicine among Different People -- Post-Partum Salt Packing and Other Medical Practices: Oman, South Arabia -- SECTION TWO: Specific Subject Papers -- The Incidence of Mental Illness among Italians in an English-Canadian City -- Warning: The Milk in This Package May Be Lethal for Your Infant -- Prehistoric Pictography in North America of Medical Significance -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Midwifery -- Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? -- The Use of Argillaceous Earth as Medicament -- SECTION THREE: Interaction of Traditional and Western Medical Practices -- Human Factors in the Regulation of Parasitic Infections: Cultural Ecology of Hookworm Populations in Rural West Bengal -- Analysis of Incidence of Excessive Alcohol Intake by the Indian Population in Montana -- Witchcraft: An Allegory? -- The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town -- Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease -- Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru -- A Transubstantiated Health Clinic in Nepal: A Model for the Future -- Traditional African Medicine -- SECTION FOUR: Theoretical Aspects of Medical Anthropology -- Medical Anthropology: Mirror for Medicine -- Emics and Etics of Health Problems in Ethiopia -- Sociocultu |