Indigenous Theories of Contagious Disease
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4601069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel T Halperin (0000-0003-1557-5379, Unity Health System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1878-1879 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00436-0 |
| OpenAlex | W2027418066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
Alternative medicine · CINAHL · Context (archaeology · Critical appraisal · Family medicine · MEDLINE · Orgasm · Physical therapy · Postpartum period · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Randomized controlled trial · Sexual dysfunction · Urinary incontinence · Medicine · Race, Genetics, and Society · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Internal Medicine · Surgery
Zoonotic Encounters at the Slaughterhouse
The Social Epidemiology and Burden of Malaria in Bali Nyonga, Northwest Cameroon
Traditional healers as caregivers to HIV/Aids clients and other terminally challenged persons in Kanye community home-based care programme (CHBC), Botswana
‘They Call Us Killers’
Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge
‘Healers’ understandings of indigenous names for HIV/Aids in Harare, Zimbabwe
‘ Hawa ’ and ‘ resistensiya ’
‘A chronic disease is a disease which keeps coming back … it is like the flu’
Aids Is in the Food
Gelling medical knowledge
Outside the Ward and Clinic
Illness Transmission and Proximity
HIV, sexually transmitted infections and social inequalities
Mobilising indigenous resources for anthropologically designed HIV-prevention and behaviour-change interventions in southern Africa
Introduction of culturally sensitive HIV prevention in the context of female initiation rites
African communalism and public health policies
Exclusionary inclusion and the normalization of biomedical culture
Averting danger
The Homecomer
Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania
Achieving “Total Sanitation” in Rural African Geographies
Caring for Those in Crisis
The adapting healer
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
For the Sake of our Children
Malaria, Danger, and Risk Perceptions among the Yao in Rural Malawi
The interface between medical anthropology and medical ethnobiology
The aetiology of diseases in central Mozambique
| Citations per year | 1.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2021 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |