Aspects of Indigenous Medicine in South Western Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5775422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Oluwole Ogundele (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 01 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies on Ethno-Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0973-5070 • E-ISSN: 2456-6772 |
| Publisher | Kamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31901/24566772.2007/01.02.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4234325025 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Medical anthropology looks at cultural conceptions of the body, health and illness.Medical anthropology is the study of ethno-medicine; explanation of illness and disease; what causes illness; the evaluation of health, illness and cure from both an emic and etic point of view; naturalistic and personalistic explanation , evil eye, magic and sorcery; biocultural and political study of health ecology; types of medical systems; development of systems of medical knowledge and health care and patient-practitioner relationships; political economic studies of health ideologies and integrating alternative medical systems in culturally diverse environments.Ethnomedicine also refers to the study of traditional medical practice.Theoretical classic-Medicine, Magic and Religion defined medicine as a cultural system.In Puerto Rico, spiritism offers a traditional alternative to community health services.Two systems of health care co-exist in Ecuador.Health care in India is charaterised by medical pluralism, including self care, consultations with traditional healers and /or primary health care services (PHCs) These medical systems are complementary, alternative and unconventional.In addition to codified traditional systems-Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha there is ethno-medicine, religious healing and folk medicine.Indian medical policy is not based on traditional medicine alone.The state health programmes are well intended but lack anthropological consultation.To date, research into traditional medicine has been covered mainly by anthropology and it is suggested that other scientific disciplines should be incorporated in order to further rescue and revalue this part of the cultural heritage that has contributed substantially to human health and to the development of indigenous medical knowledge and its resources
Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis · Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture · Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Social anthropology and medicine
Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
On illness meanings and clinical interpretation
Traditional treatment for mental illness in Africa
Ecology, Culture, and Change
Sexual Illnesses and Underutilization of Biomedicine Among Tribal Women of Rajasthan
Why do indigenous practitioners successfully heal
Medical anthropology
Other Healers
The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness
Concepts and a model for the comparison of medical systems as cultural systems
Dava, Daktar, and Dua
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine
The Quest for Therapy
Non-Western Medical Systems
Anthropology and International Health
Asian Medical Systems
Ainu illness and healing
Primitive Concepts of Disease
The supernatural is everywhere
Creating a second-storey woman
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |