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• TextbiomedicineDoctor-patient relationship...1 more

  Sacred healing and biomedicine compared

  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 sociocultural forces that have led to the emphasis on the physicians' persona in biomedical practice.
• Texthealing

  Earliest phases in the evolution of sickness and healing

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

  Objectified selves: An analysis of medicines in Andean sacrificial healing

  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.
• Texthealingwar

  Terror warfare and the medicine of peace

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  Depressive illness and Navajo healing

  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 of problems such as those glossed as depression.
• TexthealingNavajos

  Rethinking the role of diagnosis in Navajo religious healing

  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.
• Textalcoholismhealing...1 more

  Jesus, peyote, and the holy people: Alcohol abuse and the ethos of power in Navajo healing

  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.
• TexthealingNavajos

  The whole universe is my cathedral: A contemporary Navajo spiritual synthesis

  Discusses the three major spiritual healing ways used by Navajo Indians today.
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  Identity and healing in three Navajo religious traditions: sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó

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