Disease Etiologies in Non‐Western Medical Systems

Foster, George M.

doi:10.1525/aa.1976.78.4.02a00030

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“…Propitiation of supernatural agents is a common means of securing relief for the community or individual from many diseases. Gaddis are like many south-Asians that adhere to medical belief system which falls into the broad class of what Foster calls a personalistic etiololgy (Foster, 1976;Foster and Anderson, 1978). Apart from being culturally oriented, Gaddi circumscribed by their ecological conditions and transhumant way of life have to depend on traditional healers in addition to biomedicine.…”

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Gaddis’ Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing

Bhasin

2008

Studies on Ethno-Medicine

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Patients seek cures from a variety of medical systems. In the traditional medical systems, medical traditions partly cover other sectors of social life. In contrast to traditional health care system, the official health care system is based on Western science and technology. Gaddis employ different ways in case of sickness. Traditional medical knowledge is coded in to household cooking practices, home remedies; ill health prevention and health maintenance beliefs and routines. Like other rural parts of India, health care in Bharmour among Gaddis is characterised by medical pluralism. Among Gaddis, the health care includes self care, consultation with traditional healers-chela; and /or primary health care. Spirit possession is acknowledged as an illness among Gaddis. The cause is a spirit, the effect is spirit possession and the cure is controlled spirit possession. Among Gaddis, deities and evil spirits possess men as well as women. It is believed by Gaddis that traditional medical system is competent of restoring health of the body (herbs) or the mind (chela). Modern education, technology, biomedicine has not threatened the traditional therapeutic healing as there are no alternatives. The integration of the two systems is conceptual. These systems just co-exist, side-by-side. To dismiss traditional medical systems as ineffective or weak is to overlook their relevance and benefits in the contexts of their socio-cultural systems. At the same the shortcomings of modern medical systems: their technical complexity, rising costs, curative rather than preventive focus, and limited accessibility for large population sectors can not be overlooked.

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Gaddis’ Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing

Bhasin

2008

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“…It is agreed that diseases are a mix between biology and culture (Hsu 2002, 6) and that traditional medicine conceives of illnesses as a punishment imposed by other-worldly beings or ancestors, or via spells (Foster 1976;Levinson 2004). Thus, rituals, religion and magic are involved in recovery.…”

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Exploring Past Ontologies: Bodies, Jugs and Figurines from the Phoenician-Punic Western Mediterranean

López-Bertrán

2016

CAJ

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“…Há relatos mostrando que a prática deste tipo de medicina, no mundo rural latino-americano, em geral (Foster, 1976), e brasileiro, em particular (Queiroz, 1984), ocorre obedecendo a uma lógica que classifica medicamentos naturais e alimentos como "quente" e "frio". No entanto, em contextos urbanos e industrializados, esta lógica classificatória, baseada principalmente no reconhecimento de que a saúde seria promovida por um equilíbrio do organismo humano com seu meio externo, intermediado principalmente pela alimentação, tende a ser perder em favor de um princípio mais sintomático, que, da mesma maneira como ocorre com a prática da medicina oficial, procura intervir mais dramática e diretamente no organismo humano, no sentido de rapidamente aliviar os sintomas que incomodam o paciente e restabelecer a sua capacidade de trabalho.…”

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Estratégias de consumo em saúde entre famílias trabalhadoras

Queiroz

1993

Cad. Saúde Pública

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O presente artigo analisa as representações e as práticas sobre saúde e doença entre famílias operárias do município de Paulínea, São Paulo. Ênfase especial é colocada no relacionamento desta população com a medicina posta em prática pela rede pública de atenção à saúde, recentemente implantada no município e considerada modelo no contexto brasileiro pelos técnicos do setor. As práticas relacionadas com as medicinas caseira e religiosa e com os farmacêuticos, bem como o problema da automedicação, são também focalizadas como elementos importantes disponíveis à população estudada.

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Disease Etiologies in Non‐Western Medical Systems

Cited by 323 publications

References 14 publications

Gaddis’ Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing

Gaddis’ Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing

Exploring Past Ontologies: Bodies, Jugs and Figurines from the Phoenician-Punic Western Mediterranean

Estratégias de consumo em saúde entre famílias trabalhadoras

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