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The Traditional Healer in Tanzania
Issue, 1979I shall deal with a limited number of aspects of the traditional healer in Tanzania. A more expanded treatment will be presented in a larger study on health policy and development in Tanzania since 1930. Traditional medicine has been discussed by anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers in ever increasing numbers in this country, probably because
A. Beck
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Traditional livestock healers.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 2004Traditional 'animal doctors' are a substantial component of livestock healthcare systems in developing countries. However, in contrast to their counterparts in human ethnomedicine, such healers and their roles have been largely ignored by the modern veterinary community. While sometimes used as informants for community-based animal healthcare projects,
E, Mathias, C M, McCorkle
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Traditional healers in Swaziland
Parasitology Today, 1986Cet article aborde les croyances traditionnelles, un projet d'education, l'edification sur les croyances traditionnelles.
W, Hoff, G, Shapiro
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Ngankaris: Traditional healers
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2000Chair: Brian DixonExecutive Director, Aboriginal Services Division, Dept of Human Services, AdelaideA Ngankari is a very special person – they know all about sickness – they can look at someone ins...
Rupert Peters Ngankari +2 more
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Traditional healers and modern medicine
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1975Abstract The results of interviews with 93 traditional healers in three states of India are presented in this paper. These traditional healers are found to be increasingly using modern/allopathic medicines in their practice. The association of use of modern medicines has also been studied vis-a-vis their background characteristics such as age ...
J C, Bhatia +3 more
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THE TRADITIONAL HEALER IN MODERN ARNHEM LAND
Medical Journal of Australia, 1973H. Eastwell
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Traditional Healers in Southern Africa
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1998One task of medical anthropologists is to search for similarities and differences among cultural conceptions of illness and healing. This search may identify common, if not universal, characteristics of healing and effective patient care. This paper describes traditional healing practices in southern Africa as related by six traditional healers ...
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The Traditional Healer Resurfaces
Mycobacterial Diseases, 2013Copyright: © 2012 Duker AA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. A study by Daniels et al.
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Traditional healers in rural Hausaland
GeoJournal, 1981Hausa communities in Nigeria are served by several distinct types of traditional healers. Practitioners who utilize various secular or technical approaches in healing may be distinguished from those who claim the ability to mobilize some spiritual or supernatural force for healing purposes.
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Traditional Healers’ Views On Fertility
Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 2009Infertility is one of the major problems facing families, both in the public and private health sectors. This article reports on findings of a study that investigated the traditional perspectives regarding infertility. The study was conducted using qualitative research methods with five traditional healers who were selected through purposive sampling ...
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