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Addresses the similarities and differences between sacred healing and biomedicine along several important dimensions that bear on the differential effects of patients' experiences of their treatment.
Concludes with a consideration of contemporary…

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Reviews and analyses the early phases of the evolution, those bearing the most apparent influences of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

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The analysis of medicines used in Quechua soul-calling ritual in the southern Peruvian Andes demonstrates that the items in sacrificial bundles (despachos) embody the identity of patients.

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Suggests that, despite the explicit role of the sacred in the religious healing interventions available to Navajo patients, differences between biomedical and religious healing systems maybe less significance than their shared existential engagement…

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Examines the role of diagnosis in two Navajo religious healing traditions and examines a case study of diagnostic encounter between an NAC diagnostician and a Traditional patient.

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Examines the two more recent healing traditions as religious responses to the contemporary Navajo crisis of alcohol and substance abuse as well as to socioeconomics changes.

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Discusses the three major spiritual healing ways used by Navajo Indians today.

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Elucidate how the Navajo synthetic principle sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó (SNBH) is understood, demonstrated, and elaborated in three different Navajo healing traditions.

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