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Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine

by Gordon Vance

ISBN 9781788825610
Publisher Medplus
Copyright Year 2020
Price £194.95
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Description

Ethnomedicine is a term that refers to a wide range of healthcare systems (structures), practices, beliefs, and therapeutic techniques that arise from indigenous cultural development. Ethnomedicine is also taken to mean the study of these systems and techniques more so from the sense of placing them into an anthropological context rather than evaluating their effectiveness using the scientific method. This book is richly illustrated with figures, diagrams, photographs, and tables. The book contains different chapters based on the original research work by eminent academicians and scientists. This book will satisfy the needs of students, researchers, scientists, and experts of this field. We are confident that this book will serve as a key source of information on this field. It offers the most relevant and concise information available in the world today on this field. This book is very well made making the matter very clear without any ambiguity, covering all main topics of this branch. Language of the book is very simple for the students to follow. This book will be a unique contribution to this field.