TY - BOOK AU - BELCOVE,JANET S. AU - BHOWMIK,K.L. AU - CHILIVUMBO,A.B. AU - CHOWDHURY,A.B. AU - CHOWDHURY,J.BASU ROY AU - CLUNE,FRANCIS J. AU - COSMINSKY,SHEILA AU - DEAN,C.G. AU - DOORENBOS,HARVEY AU - GAGLIANO,JOSEPH A. AU - GRACIA,M.F. AU - GRAVES,THEODORE D. AU - GROLLIG,FRANCIS AU - GROTTANELLI,VINIGI L. AU - Grollig,Francis X. AU - HALEY,HAROLD B. AU - HALEY,HAROLD Β. AU - Haley,Harold B. AU - KITEME,KAMUTI AU - KOCHAR,V.K. AU - LASSANCE PARTHUN,MARY AU - LOVELAND,FRANKLIN O. AU - MESSING,SIMON D. AU - NAWALINSKI,T. AU - NDETI,KIVUTO AU - PFIFFERLING,JOHN HENRY AU - QUINTANILLA,A. AU - RAPHAEL,DANA AU - RITTER,DALE W. AU - RITTER,ERIC W. AU - RÖMER,B. AU - SCHAD,G.A. AU - STABLEIN,WILLIAM AU - TAYLOR,KENNETH I. AU - TSUNOO,MICHIO AU - VARGAS,LUIS ALBERTO AU - WOODS,CLYDE M. TI - Medical Anthropology T2 - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series SN - 9789027977991 AV - GN296 U1 - 362.1 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Medical anthropology KW - Congresses KW - Anthropologie KW - Kongress KW - Medizin KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807509 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110807509 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110807509/original ER -