World Health Organization Publication : Year 1983 ; Traditional Medicine and Health Care Coverage: Traditional Medicine and Health Care Coverage

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization Publication : Year 1983 ; Traditional Medicine and Health Care Coverage: Traditional Medicine and Health Care Coverage
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Traditional medicine is a rather vague term loosely used to distinguish ancient and culture - bound health care practices which extsted before the application of science to health matter in offcial modern scientific medicine or allopathy.

Table of Contents
Con tents Page Foreword-H . Mahler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PART ONE-Systems and practices of traditional medicine Chapter 1 . An introduction to ethnomedicine-G . M . Foster . 17 Chapter 2 . Traditional medicine and psychiatry in Africa . . . 25 I . M . Koumare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 I1. P . Coppo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chapter 3 . Traditional medicine in Latin America-C . Goldwater 37 I . Humoral theory and therapy . . . . . . . . . . 37 I1. Spiritism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Chapter 4 . Ayurveda-P . N . V. Kurup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 I . Ayurvedic medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 I1 . Medical astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 5 . The Unani system of health and medicare-H . M . Said . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61