Medical anthropology / ed. Francis X. Grollig, Harold B. Haley.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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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