Medical Anthropology / / ed. by Francis X. Grollig, Harold B. Haley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BELCOVE, JANET S.,; BHOWMIK, K. L.,; CHILIVUMBO, A. B.,; CHOWDHURY, A. B.,; CHOWDHURY, J. BASU ROY,; CLUNE, FRANCIS J.,; COSMINSKY, SHEILA,; DEAN, C. G.,; DOORENBOS, HARVEY,; GAGLIANO, JOSEPH A.,; GRACIA, M. F.,; GRAVES, THEODORE D.,; GROLLIG, FRANCIS,; GROTTANELLI, VINIGI L.,; HALEY, HAROLD B.,; HALEY, HAROLD Β.,; KITEME, KAMUTI,; KOCHAR, V. K.,; LASSANCE PARTHUN, MARY,; LOVELAND, FRANKLIN O.,; MESSING, SIMON D.,; NAWALINSKI, T.,; NDETI, KIVUTO,; PFIFFERLING, JOHN HENRY,; QUINTANILLA, A.,; RAPHAEL, DANA,; RITTER, DALE W.,; RITTER, ERIC W.,; RÖMER, B.,; SCHAD, G. A.,; STABLEIN, WILLIAM,; TAYLOR, KENNETH I.,; TSUNOO, MICHIO,; VARGAS, LUIS ALBERTO,; WOODS, CLYDE M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Grollig, Francis X.,; Haley, Harold B.,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (485 p.) :; Figs. Plates. Tabs

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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