Traditional healing, new science or new colonialism? : (Essays in critique of medical anthropology) / edited with an introd. by Philip Singer.

Contributor(s):

Singer, Philip, 1925- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Owerri ; New York : Conch Magazine Ltd., 1977Description: 260 pages (pages 260 blank for "Notes") 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0914970364

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

615.899 20 T

LOC classification:

GN296 .T7

Contents:

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.

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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.

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