Medical Anthropology / / ed. by Francis X. Grollig, Harold B. Haley.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1976 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (485 p.) :; Figs. Plates. Tabs |
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Other title: | I-XVIII -- 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 Sanumá (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 -- Sociocultural Barriers to Technological Change: An Anthropological Approach -- Reflections -- SECTION FIVE: Vox Populorum: Congress Commentaries -- Vox Populorum: Congress Commentaries -- Post Scriptum -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110807509 9783110637922 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110807509 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Francis X. Grollig, Harold B. Haley. |