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Ethnographic study of Buruli ulcer wound management practices in a traditional therapeutic setting in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health
Introduction Buruli ulcer (BU) is a skin-related neglected tropical disease (skin NTD) considered to be a disease of the poor. This study explored BU wound management in a traditional therapeutic setting in the Atwima Mponua District of Ghana and ...
Edmond Kwaku Ocloo   +13 more
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Central Asian Social Types as an Orientalism Pattern in Leonid Solovyov’s Prose

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2021
The literary work of the Russian writer Leonid Solovyov (1906-1962) was widely known in the Soviet period of the twentieth century - but only by means of the novel dilogy about Khoja Nasreddin.
Eleonora F. Shafranskaya   +1 more
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Traditional healing in Kisii County, Kenya: a personal narrative

open access: yesBJPsych International, 2023
This article describes the author's experiences growing up in a family of traditional healers, an account of early guidance by her grandmother, a severe illness that influenced her to become a healer and the values that are central to her own work as a ...
Lydia Matoke
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Implantation zone as an echographic criterion identification of types of cicatricial and isthmic pregnancies in women with a scar on the uterus

open access: yesМедицинский вестник Юга России, 2022
Objective: the purpose of this publication is to present the establishment of the implantation zone of the fetal egg during ultrasound diagnostics at 5-7 weeks to differentiate the types of cicatricial and isthmian pregnancies in women with a scar on the
M. A. Esetov, A. M. Esetov
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Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2021
The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contextualization of diseases (Jean-Claude Larchet) and their treatment in the Middle Ages.
Ekaterina Todorova
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Healing and Rebalancing in the Aftermath of Colonial Violence: An Indigenous-Informed, Response-Based Approach

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
What is understood as “healing” is often culturally and socially embedded. One’s culture helps to define what it means to be well or unwell, and what it means to heal or recover.
Catherine Kinewesquao Richardson   +3 more
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To be wounded and yet heal. How two wounded healers helped Henri Nouwen find solitude

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2023
This article explored Henri Nouwen’s well-known concept, the wounded healer. After investigating its origins, Henri Nouwen’s use of the term was examined.
George W. Marchinkowski
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Loitsud ja rahvaarstid Virumaal [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2017
On the basis of Virumaa material, the article discusses healing words as well as charms that were used to regulate communication between human beings and the world of spirits.
Mare Kõiva
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Trauma and the role of the wounded healer

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Body Carl Jung used the term, ‘The Wounded Healer’ as an archetypal dynamic to describe a phenomenon which may take place in the relationship between analyst and analysand. Jung discovered the Wounded Healer archetype in relation to himself.
A. Hankir, R. Zaman, F. Carrick
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The Integral Healer: The 4 Pillars of the Healer’s Practice

open access: yesGlobal Advances in Health and Medicine, 2020
The scientific method has provided the 21st allopathic healer with many powerful and effective tools to combat disease. However, the management of technology does not equate with being a healer.
James D Duffy MD, FANPA, FAAHPM, DABMA
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