Graun Em Pulap Long Pipia: Rubbish, Sorcery, and Spiritual Healing, Papua New Guinea
Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea comments that the “Earth is full of rubbish” and associates this material overflow with the possible causes and consequences of sorcery.
Daniela Vávrová
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Navigating multiple sources of healing in the context of HIV/AIDS and wide availability of antiretroviral treatment: a qualitative study of community participants’ perceptions and experiences in rural South Africa [PDF]
Background: South Africa introduced the world’s largest antiretroviral treatment (ART) program in 2004 and since 2016 the Department of Health implemented a universal Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy.
Moshabela, Mosa +3 more
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Ravitsemisoskus kui pärimusrühma ühisteadmus: Siberi Rõžkovo küla näide [PDF]
The article explores the use of folk healing methods in the mixed Estonian and Finnish lore group (called virulased), who have settled in the village of Ryzhkovo.
Anu Korb
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Prevalence of Oral Pain and Barriers to use of Emergency Oral Care Facilities Among Adult Tanzanians. [PDF]
Oral pain has been the major cause of the attendances in the dental clinics in Tanzania. Some patients postpone seeing the dentist for as long as two to five days.
Ahadieli Raphael Senkoro +24 more
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Journeying to visibility:an autoethnography of self-harm scars in the therapy room [PDF]
This autoethnography explores the experience of a therapist negotiating the visibility of their self‐harm scars in the therapy room. Its form takes the shape of the author's personal meaning‐making journey, beginning by exploring the construction of the ...
Stirling, Fiona J.
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Models and perspectives concerning the identity of Jesus as healer
This study reviews various perspectives into the identity of Jesus as healer. There are two main perspectives – those that approach the identity of Jesus as healer from a theological perspective focusing on his personhood as messiah and those that use ...
Zorodzai Dube
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BackgroundThe resources of West African mental health care systems are severely constrained, which contributes to significant unmet mental health needs.
Dror Ben-Zeev +8 more
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This essay discusses the balance between theatricality and antitheatricality in Faith Healer, by Brian Friel, and argues that the play draws inspiration from drama as ritual and from medieval and mystery plays.
Robert Tracy
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Epistemologi Penyembuhan Kiai Tabib
This article analyzes the epistemology of healing developed by kiai-traditional healer. In the Indonesian-Islamic tradition of healing, the kiai-traditional healer develops his own epistemological construct of healing, based on: (1) textual basis (bayânî)
M. Syamsul Huda
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Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant from MRL/MpJ Super-Healer Mice Does Not Improve Articular Cartilage Repair in the C57Bl/6 Strain. [PDF]
Articular cartilage has been the focus of multiple strategies to improve its regenerative/ repair capacity. The Murphy Roths Large (MRL/MpJ) "super-healer" mouse demonstrates an unusual enhanced regenerative capacity in many tissues and provides an ...
Catherine A Leonard +5 more
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