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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Western medicine"”.
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中国现代医事形成中的地方性——以上海为个案（1927-1937年）= THE LOCALITY IN THE MAKING OF MODERN MEDICINE IN CHINA, A CASE STUDY OF SHANGHAI, 1927-1937
… the conflicts between practitioners of Western medicine and Chinese medicine，which is the core of modern transformation of medicine in China in the “Nanjing Decade（1927-1937）”from the angle of the province, but not the State. By taking Shanghai as a case, this dissertation reveals the …
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Health and religion : a study of health-seeking behaviour in Kayamandi, Western Cape in the context of "medical pluralism"
… strategies for different ailments). Even though Western Medicine is a dominant and the only legalized health-seeking strategy in South Africa this research suggests that there is a growing use of other health-seeking strategies, either alternatively or complementarily to Western Medicine. Reasons …
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A study of how a sangoma makes sense of her ‘sangomahood’ through narrative
… namely the dominant, scientific discourse of Western medicine and the alternative discourse of traditional healing. In this part of the journey the historical, anthropological and sociological perspectives on medicine are discussed, as well as the different views of Western medicine and …
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Cultural Encounters in Medicine: (Re)Constituting Traditional Medicine in Taiwan under Colonization, Modernity, and Exchange
Today we have many alternative medicines, not a few of which connect back to aboriginal cultures. Some of these alternative medicines were born under the influence of European imperialism, as they were not "alternative" until modern empires and modern medicine came to these distant regions. The …
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A history of Chitokoloki mission hospital in Zambezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia, 1914-2014.
… Hospital in Zambezi District of the North-Western Province and determine its significance in the history of mission hospitals in Zambia. While the Zambian medical history has tended to focus on the role of Western medicine in the health of Africans to the exclusion of the institutions where …
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A history of Chitokoloki mission hospital in Zambezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia, 1914-2014.
… Hospital in Zambezi District of the North-Western Province and determine its significance in the history of mission hospitals in Zambia. While the Zambian medical history has tended to focus on the role of Western medicine in the health of Africans to the exclusion of the institutions where …
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Jhakris and the urban Nepali conflict : chaos and confusion
… conflict between urban Nepalis, who believe in Western medicine, and the Jhakris, Nepalese traditional healers. Nepalis in Western influenced urban areas made traditional healing practices illegal, resulting in violent arrests and beatings of Jhakris by police and occasional violent retaliation …
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Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies
… as they have taken shape through discourses of Western medicine, psychology, and history/criticism of the arts. As I argue, madness is not purely a somatic, transhistorical illness, but an elusively constructed term with tentative relations to shifting concepts of emotional, cognitive, and …
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Reconnecting the Mind and Body: Using Bodywork to Help Improve Mental Health
… has been a topic of study since the beginning of medicine. In Eastern medicine, there has been an integration of the two; however in Western medicine, the paring of the mind and body is becoming a new mainstream form of treatment. This literature review considers four different types of bodywork, …
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The Life Story Analysis of Those Suffering from Autoimmune Thyroiditis
… financial impacts. There are many deficits in Western medicine, specifically needs for more accurate diagnostic measures and more immediate forms of intervention. Feedback was provided from participants regarding areas of improvement for providers, including providing better education to …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
… examines the history of the Yup'ik Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their shamans shaped the response to introduced epidemic disease. As in the experiences of so many other Native American groups, disease epidemics played an important role in the history of relations between the …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
… examines the history of the Yup'ik Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their shamans shaped the response to introduced epidemic disease. As in the experiences of so many other Native American groups, disease epidemics played an important role in the history of relations between the …
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Zulu traditional healers’ conceptualization and treatment of trauma
… has been advancement of healing where mainstream western medicine is concerned. Significant progress has been made in this regard, concerning integration as well as motivation of integration of indigenous or traditional healing methods to treat psychological illnesses. Literature has advised that …
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Cultural Traditions and the Reproductive Health of Somali Refugees and Immigrants
… between Somali cultural traditions and Western medicine were identified. For many Somali women, prenatal care is a new concept. There was a strong desire for female caregivers and significant differences in childbirth practices exist versus cultural traditions. Women expressed fears …
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An Evaluation of the Medicinal Plants of Andros Island, Bahamas
… plant medicinals, more commonly known as “bush medicine” on Andros Island, has been rapidly decreasing due an increased presence of western medicine and increased population pressures from urbanization that are threatening local biodiversity hotspots. Ethnobotany is not only important from a …
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) psychotherapy in contemporary China: a qualitative study of TCM practitioners' perspectives
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a distinct system with a profound history and a comprehensive scholarship. TCM posits a different understanding of the human body, mind, and mental health disorders compared to Western medicine. Research is limited on the application of TCM to mental health …
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End-of-life care in China: ecology of hope
… for advanced cancer in China focused on curative western medicine and failed to alleviate prevalent pain and symptoms. Specialised palliative/end-of-life care services adapted from the western palliative care model contributed mainly to relieving cancer pain and symptoms. "Total care for the whole …
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Embodied Experiences of Caregiving: Literature as a Lens for the Health Humanities
… this project bridges health and humanities, medicine and literature, in an effort to reframe care – who, with what body, voice, and illness experience, has access to that care. In probing several experiences of caregivers, I investigate the gaps in caregiving, thus calling for more attentive …
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Disability in the Middle Ramu, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea: perceptions, prevalence and the role of community based rehabilitation
… attributed to social or supernatural causes. Western medicine was widely accepted and utilised. Most disabled individuals were physically well rehabilitated, and there was little or no stigma associated with disability. However, disabled individuals and their families identified a range of …
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