Research Catalog

Title

Ethnomedicine / Pamela I. Erickson.

Author

Erickson, Pamela I. (Pamela Irene), 1951-

Publication

Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

vii, 123 p. : 1 ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "People throughout time and place, no matter their belief system, have sought to discover causes and cures for illness and disease. Among Westerners is a groundswell to augment biomedicine with holistic practices inherent in ethnomedicines of non-Western traditions. Yet missing are awareness and knowledge of the foundations and outgrowth of these alternative concepts."
• "Erickson fills this gap by clearly explaining the basic organizing principles that underlie all medical systems, the full range of theories of disease causation, the geographical distribution of medical practices, and the historical trends that led to biomedical dominance. Her efficient, balanced approach highlights commonalities among the world's vast and diverse medical systems, making ethnomedicine easier to internalize and to apply in clinical settings."--Jacket.

Subject

• Traditional medicine
• Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
• Alternative medicine
• Medicine, Traditional
• Complementary Therapies
• Disease > etiology
• Health Services, Indigenous

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-119) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is ethnomedicine? -- Historical origins of medical systems -- What causes disease? theories of disease causation -- The geography of disease causation theories -- The healing lessons of ethnomedicine.

ISBN

• 157766521X (pbk.)
• 9781577665212 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008275453

OCLC

• 176628426
• SCSB-12036406

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library