Medical Anthropology
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Medical Anthropology

  1. 502 pages
  2. English
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Medical Anthropology

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Yes, you can access Medical Anthropology by Francis X. Grollig, Harold B. Haley, Francis X. Grollig,Harold B. Haley in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9789027977991
eBook ISBN
9783110807509
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. General Editor’s Preface
  2. Welcome Address to the Pre-Congress Conference on Medical Anthropology
  3. Preface
  4. SECTION ONE: NATIVE CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALING
  5. Introduction
  6. Witchcraft, the Shaman, and Active Pharmacopoeia
  7. The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice
  8. Body and Spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil
  9. Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes
  10. Social Basis of Illness: A Search for Therapeutic Meaning
  11. Snakebite Cure among the Rama Indians of Nicaragua
  12. The Traditional Folk Medicine of Taos, New Mexico
  13. Different Approaches to Medicine among Different People
  14. Post-Partum Salt Packing and Other Medical Practices: Oman, South Arabia
  15. SECTION TWO: SPECIFIC SUBJECT PAPERS
  16. Introduction
  17. The Incidence of Mental Illness among Italians in an English-Canadian City
  18. Warning: The Milk in This Package May Be Lethal for Your Infant
  19. Prehistoric Pictography in North America of Medical Significance
  20. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Midwifery
  21. Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology’s Inauguration in Peru?
  22. The Use of Argillaceous Earth as Medicament
  23. SECTION THREE: INTERACTION OF TRADITIONAL AND WESTERN MEDICAL PRACTICES
  24. Introduction
  25. Human Factors in the Regulation of Parasitic Infections: Cultural Ecology of Hookworm Populations in Rural West Bengal
  26. Analysis of Incidence of Excessive Alcohol Intake by the Indian Population in Montana
  27. Witchcraft: An Allegory?
  28. The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town
  29. Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease
  30. Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru
  31. A Transubstantiated Health Clinic in Nepal: A Model for the Future
  32. Traditional African Medicine
  33. SECTION FOUR: THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  34. Introduction
  35. Medical Anthropology: Mirror for Medicine
  36. Emics and Etics of Health Problems in Ethiopia
  37. Sociocultural Barriers to Technological Change: An Anthropological Approach
  38. Reflections
  39. SECTION FIVE: Vox POPULORUM: CONGRESS COMMENTARIES
  40. Post Scriptum
  41. Biographical Notes
  42. Index of Names
  43. Index of Subjects