Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Witchcraft, the shaman, and active pharmacopoeia / Francis J. Clune Jr.
  • The relevance of African traditional medicine in modern medical training and practice / Kivuto Ndeti
  • Body and spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil / Kenneth I. Taylor
  • Coca and popular medicine in Peru : an historical analysis of attitudes / Joseph A. Gagliano
  • Social basis of illness : a search for therapeutic meaning / A.B. Chilivumbo
  • Snakebite cure among the Raffia Indians of Nicaragua / Franklin O. Loveland
  • The traditional folk medicine of Taos, New Mexico / Janet S. Belcove
  • Different approaches to medicine among different people / Michio Tsunoo
  • Post-partum salt packing and other medical practices : Oman, South Arabia / Harvey Doorenbos
  • The incidence of mental illness among Italians in an English-Canadian city / Mary Lassance Parthun
  • Warning : the milk in this package may be lethal for your infant / Dana Raphael
  • Prehistoric pictography in North America of medical significance / Dale W. Ritter and Eric W. Ritter
  • Cross-cultural perspectives on midwifery / Sheila Cosminsky
  • Cerro Sechin : medical anthropology's inauguration in Peru? / Francis X. Grollig
  • The use of argillaceous earth as medicament / B. Römer
  • Human factors in the regulation of parasitic infections : cultural ecology of hookworm populations in rural west Bengal / V.K. Kochar [and others]
  • Analysis of incidence of excessive alcohol intake by the Indian population in Montana / M.F. Gracia
  • Witchcraft : an allegory? / Vinigi L. Grottanelli
  • The process of medical change in a highland Guatemalan town / Clyde M. Woods and Theodore D. Graves
  • Endemic goiter, salt, and local customs in Central America : prevention of a preventable disease / Harold B. Haley
  • Effect of rural-urban migration on beliefs and attitudes toward disease and medicine in southern Peru / A. Quintanilla
  • A transubstantiated health clinic in Nepal : a model for the future / William Stablein
  • Traditional African medicine / Kamuti Kiteme
  • Medical anthropology : mirror for medicine / John Henry Pfifferling
  • Emics and etics of health problems in Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing
  • Sociocultural barriers to technological change : an anthropological approach / K.L. Bhowmik and J. Basu Roy Chowdhury
  • Reflections / Luís Alberto Vargas.