Traditional healing, new science or new colonialism? : (Essays in critique of medical anthropology) /
Traditional healing, new science or new colonialism? : (Essays in critique of medical anthropology) /
edited with an introd. by Philip Singer.
- 260 pages (pages 260 blank for "Notes") 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Philip Singer --
The religious component in Southern folk medicine / Loudell F. Snow --
Traditional healing and the new health center in Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing --
"Scientific" psychiatry and "community" healers / Enrique Aranta, Jr. --
The ancient art of folk healing : African influence in a New York City community mental health center / Pedro Ruiz and John Langrod --
Collaboration with traditional healers : new colonialism and new science / Joseph Westermeyer --
Utilization of persisting cultural values of Mexican-Americans by western practitioners / Charles H. Williams --
The impact of colonialism on African cultural heritage with special reference to the practice of herbalism in Nigeria / Chief J.O. Lambo --
How I acquired the knowledge of traditional medicine / J.O. Mume --
The duality of traditional and western medicine in Africa : mystics, myths and reality / F.M. Mburu --
Indigenous healing / Ruth G. Dawkins and A.B. Dawkins, Jr. American legal and policy implications of traditional healing / John H. Shepherd --
The metaphysical background to traditional healing in Nigeria / Chief K.O.K. Onyioha --
Traditional medical practice and therapeutics in Nigeria / A. Akisanya --
Traditional healing and the medical/psychiatric mafia : an exclusive interview with T.A. Lambo, M.D. --
Appendix : Nkpora Agreement.
0914970364
75018490
Medical anthropology.
Traditional medicine.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
GN296 / .T7
615.899 / T
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Philip Singer --
The religious component in Southern folk medicine / Loudell F. Snow --
Traditional healing and the new health center in Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing --
"Scientific" psychiatry and "community" healers / Enrique Aranta, Jr. --
The ancient art of folk healing : African influence in a New York City community mental health center / Pedro Ruiz and John Langrod --
Collaboration with traditional healers : new colonialism and new science / Joseph Westermeyer --
Utilization of persisting cultural values of Mexican-Americans by western practitioners / Charles H. Williams --
The impact of colonialism on African cultural heritage with special reference to the practice of herbalism in Nigeria / Chief J.O. Lambo --
How I acquired the knowledge of traditional medicine / J.O. Mume --
The duality of traditional and western medicine in Africa : mystics, myths and reality / F.M. Mburu --
Indigenous healing / Ruth G. Dawkins and A.B. Dawkins, Jr. American legal and policy implications of traditional healing / John H. Shepherd --
The metaphysical background to traditional healing in Nigeria / Chief K.O.K. Onyioha --
Traditional medical practice and therapeutics in Nigeria / A. Akisanya --
Traditional healing and the medical/psychiatric mafia : an exclusive interview with T.A. Lambo, M.D. --
Appendix : Nkpora Agreement.
0914970364
75018490
Medical anthropology.
Traditional medicine.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
GN296 / .T7
615.899 / T