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• Textchild survivaltraditional medicine

  The (re)negotiation of illness diagnoses and responsibility for child death in rural Mali

  Kin and community power relationships in rural Mali shape the process of diagnosing a child with fatal illness. Two folk illnesses are regarded as supernaturally caused were important final diagnoses of the cause of death.
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  Cross-cultural healing in East African Ethnography

  A focus on the dynamics and ideology of cross-cultural healing may be crucial for an understanding of processes generated by the encounter between biomedicine and African traditional medical systems.
• Texttraditional medicine

  American acupuncture and efficacy: Meanings and their points of insertion

• Textrashtraditional medicine

  Healing herbs and dangerous doctors: "Fruit fever" and community conflicts with biomedical care in Northeast Thailand

  Local perceptions and treatment of khai mak mai (fruit fver).
• Textherbal medicinetraditional medicine

  Herbalism, home gardens, and hybridization: Wothiha medicine and cultural change

  The role and influence of shamanism have dramatically decreased, the Wothiha have turned elsewhere for medical treatment.
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  Bleeding babies in Badakhshan: Symbolism, materialism, and the political economy of traditional medicine in post-Soviet Tajikistan

  The bleeding of infants via the skin and the roof of the mouth is practiced in Badakhshan.