Traditional healing : new science or new colonialism? : (essays in critique of medical anthropology) /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Singer, Philip, 1925- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Buffalo, New York : Conch Magazine Ltd., [1976]
Subjects:	Medical anthropology. Traditional medicine. Traditional medicine > Africa. Psychiatry, Transcultural. Medicine, Traditional. Africa. Essays.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Philip Singer
The religious component in Southern folk medicine / Loudell F. Snow
Traditional healing and the new health center in Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing
"Scientific" psychiatry and "community" healers / Enrique Aranta, Jr.
The ancient art of folk healing : African influence in a New York City community mental health center / Pedro Ruiz and John Langrod
Collaboration with traditional healers : new colonialism and new science / Joseph Westermeyer
Utilization of persisting cultural values of Mexican-Americans by western practitioners / Charles H. Williams
The impact of colonialism on African cultural heritage with special reference to the practice of herbalism in Nigeria / Chief J.O. Lambo
How I acquired the knowledge of traditional medicine / J.O. Mume
The duality of traditional and western medicine in Africa : mystics, myths and reality / F.M. Mburu
Indigenous healing / Ruth G. Dawkins and A.B. Dawkins, Jr.
American legal and policy implications of traditional healing / John H. Shepherd
The metaphysical background to traditional healing in Nigeria / Chief K.O.K. Onyioha
Traditional medical practice and therapeutics in Nigeria / A. Akisanya
Traditional healing and the medical/psychiatric mafia : an exclusive interview with T.A. Lambo, M.D.
Appendix : Nkpora Agreement.