Transcript Ethnomedicine: Religion and Healing Chapter 6 Lehmann text Ethnomedicine      Importance of culture Universality of cure and cause of diseases with religious basis Types of causation for disease World.

Ethnomedicine: Religion
and Healing
Chapter 6
Lehmann text
Ethnomedicine
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Importance of culture
Universality of cure and cause of diseases with
religious basis
Types of causation for disease
World Health Organization
Intercultural contact & diseases
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Contact film (Brazil)
Rejection to Western medicine
Ethnomedicine
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Applied anthropologists
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Advantage & disadvantage to health care systems
Natural vs. supernatural explanations
Ethno botany: curative properties in plants
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Native Americans
Africa
Latin America
Ethnomedicine
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Mental Illnesses
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Traditional healers vs. Western psychologists
Lack social stigma
Statistics
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WHO multicultural 7yr. Pilot study
Nigeria and India
58% Nigerians & 51% Indians viewed as cured
6% Denmark & 27% in China
Ethnomedicine
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Supernaturally caused illnesses
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Sorcery
Breach of taboo
Intrusion of a disease object
Intrusion of a disease-causing spirit
Loss of soul
Difficulty of determining the frequency and
incidence of illnesses.
Mental Illnesses
A School for Medicine
Men
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Robert Bergman
A School of Medicine Men
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Background
The Rituals
The School
Obtaining Funds
The Training Program
Class Activity
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In a small group, discuss and analyze the
article by Edward Halperin.
Should Academic Medical Center Conduct
Clinical Trials of the Efficacy of Intercessory
Prayer?
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What is the author’s position?
What is your position or view?