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"People throughout time and place, no matter their belief system, have sought to discover causes and cures for illness and disease. Among Westerners is a groundswell to augment biomedicine with holistic practices inherent in ethnomedicines of non-Western traditions. Yet missing are awareness and knowledge of the foundations and outgrowth of these alternative concepts." "Erickson fills this gap by clearly explaining the basic organizing principles that underlie all medical systems, the full range of theories of disease causation, the geographical distribution of medical practices, and the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008Waveland Press · 123 pages · 9781577665212
DiseasesTraditional medicineCauses and theories of causationAlternative medicineComplementary TherapiesDiseaseEtiologyIndigenous Health Services