The anthropology of medicine : from culture to method / [edited by] Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi, and contributors.

New York, N.Y. : Praeger, 1983.

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Also published by Bergin & Garvey Publishers, South Hadley, Massachusetts

Includes bibliographies and index

Folk medicine and metaphor in the context of medicalization : syncretics in curing practices by Lola Romanucci-Ross (pages 5-19) -- Aztec and European medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 by Clara Sue Kidwell (pages 20-31) -- Traditional medicine and western medical options among the Ningerum of Papua New Guinea by Robert L. Welsch (pages 32-53) -- Doctors or deceivers? : the Siberian Khanty shaman and Soviet medicine by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer (pages 54-76) -- Studying outcomes of Mexican spiritualist therapy by Kaja Finkler (pages 81-102) -- Shamanistic healing among the Diegueño Indians of southern California by Spencer L. Rogers and Lorraine Evernham (pages 103-118) -- Anarchy, abjection and absurdity : a case of metaphoric medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire by Allen F. Roberts (pages 119-133) -- The symbolic roots of three potent Iroquois medicinal plants by James W. Herrick (pages 134-155) -- Psychology and symbols : the anthropological implications of the placebo effect by Daniel E. Moerman (pages 156-167) -- Culture, nutrition, and health by Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto (pages 173-200) -- The antibiotic and healing potential of plants used for teeth cleaning by Memory Elvin-Lewis (pages 201-220) -- Naturally occurring dietary antibiotics and human health by Margaret Keith and George J. Armelagos (pages 221-230) -- Malaria, medicine and meals : plant use among the Hausa and its impact on disease by Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross (pages 231-259) -- On madness, deviance and culture by Lola Romanucci-Ross (pages 267-283) -- Psychiatry and social control by Laurence R. Tancredi (pages 284-297) -- Psychosomatic illness in the Chinese cultural context by Jen-Yi Wang (pages 298-318) -- Mental health, traditional beliefs, and the moral order among Yemenite Jews in Israel by Phyllis Palgi (pages 319-335) -- Psychotherapy : brave new world or requiem for misguided idealism? by Igor Grant (pages 336-343) -- Ideology and order in the operating room by Marcia Elliot Felker (pages 349-365) -- Pangolins and advocates : vulnerability and self-protection in a mental patients' rights agency by Lawrence B. Radine (pages 366-387)