LTHOUGH much current anthropological research is being concentrated A on the problem of cultural change along the axes between the folk and urban ways of life, between the developed and the underdeveloped peoples, between the literate and the nonliterate, etc., very little material has been obtained from the zone of interaction between so-called primitive and so-called scientific forms of medical practice as an aspect of the more general interaction between scientific and primitive technology. Some general work has been done in the area of primitive medicine, usually focused on its functional role in a particular cultural context (Ackerknecht
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