Self-medication within the context of medical pluralism in Yaounde, Cameroon
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: This paper documents the experiences of patients who use the knowledge and practices of the "African chemist", and the determinants of this therapeutic recourse in their ‘quest for therapy’ as ‘quest for relief’ within the context of ...
Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta +1 more
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EtnoAntropologia, 2020 Starting from medical anthropology perspective the author discusses some cultural and social issues related to the experience of becoming diabetic in Morocco. A special focus is about the impact of religious beliefs and practices on the representation of
Eugenio Zito
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Feedback on the proposal for a regulation establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market (European Media Freedom Act) and amending Directive 2010/13/EU [PDF]
, 2023 With this contribution, the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute offers a feedback to some aspects of the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council establishing a common ...
Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom
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Medical pluralism, boundary making, and tuberculosis in Lambaréné, Gabon
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 Scholars of medical pluralism are interested in how healers position themselves and their healing practices within a therapeutic landscape, and how patients navigate an array of therapeutic traditions. Based on fieldwork in Lambaréné, Gabon, this article
Anne Lia Cremers
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Medical Pluralism in the Coronavirus Epidemic: A Study of Controversy over Islamic Medicine [PDF]
مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2021 Medical pluralism refers to the coexistence of different medical traditions in a society, and on this basis, alternative and complementary medicine have found their way into the health care systems of different countries.
simin kazemi
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What could ′integrative′ medicine mean? Social science perspectives on contemporary Ayurveda
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2011 The paper attempts to critically engage with the idea of integrative medicine as a marker of pharmaceuticalization of Ayurveda in the recent decades. It examines what it means to say ′integrative′ medicine using the metaphor of language from philosophy ...
V Sujatha
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Médecines créoles guyanaise et haïtienne face au Covid-19
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2023 In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of medicinal plants to prevent, cure, and combat the symptoms of Covid-19 has prevailed among the Guyanese and Haitian Creole communities in French Guiana.
Marc-Alexandre Tareau, Guillaume Odonne
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Traditional medicines and globalization: current and future perspectives in ethnopharmacology
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2013 The ethnopharmacological approach towards the understanding and appraisal of traditional and herbal medicines is characterized by the inclusions of the social as well as the natural sciences. Anthropological field-observations describing the local use of
Marco eLeonti
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Officiers de santé et soignantes créoles face à la fièvre jaune
Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2016 This essay concerns the health service of the French expedition to Saint-Domingue (1802-1803), and its struggle with a yellow fever epidemic. It aims to reveal the multiplicity of medical actors and practices both in the core and the margins of the ...
Pierre Nobi
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George Deacon and the circulation of homeopathic therapies in Lima (1880-1915) [PDF]
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2019 Homeopathy arrived from the United States to Peruvian soil in the last decades of the nineteenth century, broadening the repertoire of existing medical knowledge, which included an emerging medical profession, Chinese herbalists, and indigenous ...
Patricia Palma
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