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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.

Tags: child survival, traditional medicine

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.

Tags: medical anthropology, traditional medicine

American acupuncture and efficacy: Meanings and their points of insertion

Tags: traditional 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).

Tags: rash, traditional 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.

Tags: herbal medicine, traditional medicine

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.

Tags: traditional medicine

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