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1 online resource (xvii, 485 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
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World anthropology |
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World anthropology.
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Witchcraft, the shaman, and active pharmacopoeia / Francis J. Clune Jr. -- The relevance of African traditional medicine in modern medical training and practice / Kivuto Ndeti -- Body and spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil / Kenneth I. Taylor -- Coca and popular medicine in Peru : an historical analysis of attitudes / Joseph A. Gagliano -- Social basis of illness : a search for therapeutic meaning / A.B. Chilivumbo -- Snakebite cure among the Raffia Indians of Nicaragua / Franklin O. Loveland -- The traditional folk medicine of Taos, New Mexico / Janet S. Belcove -- Different approaches to medicine among different people / Michio Tsunoo -- Post-partum salt packing and other medical practices : Oman, South Arabia / Harvey Doorenbos -- The incidence of mental illness among Italians in an English-Canadian city / Mary Lassance Parthun -- Warning : the milk in this package may be lethal for your infant / Dana Raphael -- Prehistoric pictography in North America of medical significance / Dale W. Ritter and Eric W. Ritter -- Cross-cultural perspectives on midwifery / Sheila Cosminsky -- Cerro Sechin : medical anthropology's inauguration in Peru? / Francis X. Grollig -- The use of argillaceous earth as medicament / B. Römer -- Human factors in the regulation of parasitic infections : cultural ecology of hookworm populations in rural west Bengal / V.K. Kochar [and others] -- Analysis of incidence of excessive alcohol intake by the Indian population in Montana / M.F. Gracia -- Witchcraft : an allegory? / Vinigi L. Grottanelli -- The process of medical change in a highland Guatemalan town / Clyde M. Woods and Theodore D. Graves -- Endemic goiter, salt, and local customs in Central America : prevention of a preventable disease / Harold B. Haley -- Effect of rural-urban migration on beliefs and attitudes toward disease and medicine in southern Peru / A. Quintanilla -- A transubstantiated health clinic in Nepal : a model for the future / William Stablein -- Traditional African medicine / Kamuti Kiteme -- Medical anthropology : mirror for medicine / John Henry Pfifferling -- Emics and etics of health problems in Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing -- Sociocultural barriers to technological change : an anthropological approach / K.L. Bhowmik and J. Basu Roy Chowdhury -- Reflections / Luís Alberto Vargas |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Medical anthropology -- Congresses
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Anthropology.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Medical care.
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Anthropology
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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Delivery of Health Care
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Developing Countries
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Patient Care
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anthropology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
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Medical care
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Cross-cultural studies
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Anthropology
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Medical anthropology
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Medische antropologie.
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Anthropologie médicale.
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Grollig, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1922-2005
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Haley, Harold B
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| ISBN |
9783110807509 |
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3110807505 |
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