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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"healers"”.
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Dogs as Healers: Explorations of How Dogs Promote Healing and Their Role as Healers
… include dogs in our descriptions of who are healers. Rather, healers are mainly considered to be healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses. In this thesis, I aim to understand what a healer is and who is a healer, thus expanding who can be a healer to dogs. To do this I explore dogs …
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Traditional healers' views on child sexual abuse
… is understood that in KwaZulu-Natal traditional healers have multi-dimensional functions in traditional Zulu culture, with eighty percent of Zulu people consulting them before coming to modem healers. Conversely, there are instances where traditional and modern healers co-operate in areas of …
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Zulu traditional healers’ conceptualization and treatment of trauma
… conceptualization of trauma by Zulu traditional healers. It objectives being to elicit views on traditional healing of trauma amongst traditional healers within the area of Ozwathini. A methodology of qualitative research design was applied in gathering findings for the study. A semi-structured …
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The Healers Boon: How Patients and Providers Find Value
Arthritis is a chronic condition requiring repeated close contact with healthcare providers within a patients' care team. Much of the research on arthritis has focused on the treatment efficacy of arthritis medications. While the gains in treatments designed to reduce pain are significant, there …
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Traditional healers and mental health care in the South African context
… attempts to officially recognize traditional healers as health care providers and South Africa is no exception. South Africa has made substantial progress in officially recognizing traditional medicine and its integration into the primary healthcare system. The Traditional Health Practitioners …
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Female healers and the boundaries of medical practice in post-plague England
… and female surgeons, and the images of women healers in literature and science. The conclusions of this study are based on a critical analysis of traditional notions of professionalization and constructs of health and sickness.
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Urban African traditional healers : their understanding of and beliefs about biomedical diseases
African traditional healers are themselves "patients" in the modern bio-psycho-social health system. Their "frameworks of meaning" of biomedical diseases provides a glimpse of the "voice of the lifeworld" of the patients who interact both with them and the modern allopathic health services. The …
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The impact of African traditional healers on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa
… investigated the impact of African traditional healers on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa. Each of the sub studies focused on the insights and opinions of three different populations, i.e. health care workers, traditional healers (who were affiliated with HIV/AIDS care services) …
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The traditional healers’ and caregivers’ views on the role of traditional Zulu medicine on psychosis
… research provide evidence that Traditional Zulu healers and a few community members view psychosis as a curable illness that is usually caused by bewitchment. This dissertation recommends that further in-depth investigation into how Africans tend to conceptualise the concept of a “mental …
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Examining religious leaders and traditional healers' experiences and responses to HIV/AIDS in a modern community
… HIV/AIDS, of religious leaders and traditional healers, in a modern community. The study acknowledges that these individuals are not only influential individuals, but are also educators in their respective communities and thus the study is situated within the education sector. The study is …
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The role of traditional healers in oral health care in the Bui Division, North West Province, Cameroon
… study was (i) to assess the role of traditional healers (THs) in providing oral care services in Cameroon; (ii) to determine their cost of treatment and to investigate reasons why people visit THs. The present study was cross sectional and consisted of a sample of 21 THs and 52 clients with a …
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Incorporating traditional healers in the care of mental disorders: The experiences of mental health nurses in Lesotho
… medicine providers such as traditional healers. Traditional healers form a substantial part of the alternative mental health workforce globally as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Lesotho, the most culturally acceptable form of alternative medicine is traditional healing. Due to the …
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A comparison of attitudes around collaboration held by traditional healers and professional nurses in the Western Cape
… health care system users consult traditional healers while also seeking biomedical forms of healing. Despite this, there is no formalized working relationship between these two systems, which operate in parallel and independently. The government has taken considerable steps towards …
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An investigation of the acquisition, transfer and preservation of indigenous knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo district of Zambia.
… of Indigenous Knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo District. This was achieved by firstly exploring how traditional healers acquired Indigenous Medical Knowledge. Secondly, by identifying the methods used during IMK transfer. Thirdly, identifying the methods which were used by …
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An investigation of the acquisition, transfer and preservation of indigenous knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo district of Zambia.
… of Indigenous Knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo District. This was achieved by firstly exploring how traditional healers acquired Indigenous Medical Knowledge. Secondly, by identifying the methods used during IMK transfer. Thirdly, identifying the methods which were used by …
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Traditional healing at Umlazi Township as part of informal business
… of this study was to investigate how traditional healers operate at Umlazi township with special reference to their socio-economic status, systems of working and their problems and future plans. The study showed that there were more male healers than female healers at Umlazi. The ages of healers …
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The embodiment and enactment of shen 神 in the Huangdi neijing 《黃帝內經》 by contemporary healers (yi 醫)
… ideas from the HDNJ is the imperative for healers (yi 醫) to view and give primacy to shen 神. The latter idea is equated with ‘mental health’ in a number of anglophone textbooks on TCM, which I disagree with. The main aim of this research is to examine if and how present-day CM practitioners …
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Warriors and Healers of the Eastern Band of Cherokee: Peoplehood, Survivance, and Military Service in World War I (1917-1924)
My research examines the contributions of the Eastern Band of Cherokee warriors during World War I, emphasizing Indigenous agency, cultural survival, and community within a settler-colonial framework. It explores how these warriors navigated military service as both an assertion of sovereignty and …
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