{"title":"Integration of church and government medical services in Tanzania: Effects at district level: by T.W.J. Schulpen. African Medical Research Foundation, Nairobi, 1975. 301 pp. No price given","authors":"R. W. Morgan","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90062-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90062-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"68 1","pages":"121-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87837783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of church and government medical services in Tanzania: Effects at district level","authors":"Robert W. Morgan","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90062-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90062-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 121-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90062-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91751776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ṙtu-s-ātmya: The seasonal cycle and the principle of appropriateness","authors":"Francis Zimmermann","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90058-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90058-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We address ourselves here to the logical frame of prognosis and treatment, in classical Hindu medicine. The Sanskrit medical texts set forth two different cycles of the seasons. The one which includes <em>the dewy season</em> is of distributive type. Every season has specific qualities antagonistic to the other ones. This provides the physician with a logical scheme according to which he may prescribe medicines compensating for an adverse excess. The other one which includes <em>the first rains</em> is of evolutive type. To the only three seasons effective in India—winter, summer, rains—, each one giving rise to a specific trouble—phlegm, wind, bile—, three other ones are added which represent transitional phases. The medical treatment adapts itself to the course of time, improving the transient seasons—spring, first rains. autumn—which are the only ones fit for the major treatments in nursing-homes. The course of time logically reconstructed will determine the selection, the appropriateness of a medical prescription.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 99-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90058-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18416269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems in the definition and classification of medical systems","authors":"Irwin Press","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90040-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90040-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper has two basic parts. The first deals with definitions and terms. Discussed are: uses and definition of “medical system”; the question of “pluralistic” medical systems; simple and complex medical systems; the problem of multisystemic configurations; “sympatric” and “allopatric” systems; dominant and variant medical systems; sub-systems and marginal systems; problems in the conceptualization and use of “professional”, “popular”, and “folk” medicine. Some new definitions and usages are proposed.</p><p>The second part of the paper concentrates on attempts to type or classify medical systems. Geographic, healing-task, paradigmatic, world view, social structural, ecological, societal, and other typological bases are examined, and their relative advantages discussed. A summary of readily usable typological criteria is presented.</p><p>Overall, the goal of the paper is to call into attention our rather uncritical abandonment to “common usage” of the definition and treatment of key concepts and terms relevant to the functional and comparative analysis of medical systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 45-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90040-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18405383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infant feeding and infant illness in a Micronesian village","authors":"Leslie B. Marshall, Mac Marshall","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90038-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90038-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The 41 mothers of 49 infants resident in Peniyesene village, Truk, Micronesia, in 1976, were interviewed regarding their infant feeding practices and the types of illness their infants had experienced in the previous 2 years. Four-fifths of the infants received at least occasional bottlefeeding and nearly half of the infants were completely weaned from the breast before 6 months of age. Most mothers introduced semisolid foods in the first 6 months. The medical records for outpatient clinic visits and for admissions to the local hospital for these infants were also examined, and the occurrence of illness serious enough to warrant hospitalization was found to be associated with exclusive bottlefeeding in the first year of life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 33-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90038-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18405381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The utilization of traditional medicine— A Malaysian example","authors":"H.K. Heggenhougen","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90039-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90039-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper documents interviews with 100 people who had come to consult a traditional Malay healer, or <em>bomoh</em>. Many people use several types of health care resources. Traditional and cosmopolitan systems are not perceived as antagonistic: a <em>bomoh</em> will often refer patients to cosmopolitan practitioners and will reinforce compliance with cosmopolitan treatment regimens. Cosmopolitan medicine's inattention to the affective aspects of healing—its concentration on disease rather than illness—is an important reason why Malaysians are reluctant to use cosmopolitan services, and is one reason why the <em>bomoh</em> is consulted for physical as well as for psychological complaints.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 39-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90039-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18405382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traditional and western health care among the Zuni Indians of New Mexico","authors":"Scott M. Camazine","doi":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90043-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0160-7987(80)90043-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the role of traditional and Western health care among the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Over the past 100 years, changes in the practice of traditional medicine have resulted from alterations in the Zuni life style and the introduction of health care provided by the Public Health Service. These alternative systems of health care are both utilized to a varying extent, determined by many factors. The present-day beliefs and expectations of the Zuni concerning disease, its etiology and its treatment are described in an analysis of the interaction between the traditional and Western health care systems. The value of traditional medical practices is examined and the importance of understanding them is stressed with the goal of increasing awareness of the health care providers of conflicts that may arise with the introduction of Western medicine. Suggestions are made that may facilitate the acceptance of modern health care in communities where traditional medicine plays an important role.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79261,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part B, Medical anthropology","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 73-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0160-7987(80)90043-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18405386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}