Type | Book |
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Author | Ismail Hussein Abdalla |
Series | Studies in African health and medicine |
Series Number | v. 6 |
Place | Lewiston |
Publisher | E. Mellen Press |
Date | 1997 |
ISBN | 0773486550 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R653.N6 A23 1997 |
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The author of this text argues that, although the Islamic and the pre-Islamic Hausa medical systems have much in common, their theoretical and conceptual frameworks are different. They operate from different understandings of the causes of disease and misfortune, and of the appropriate methods to be employed to restore health or alleviate suffering. The book also discusses another significant difference between the Islamic and non-Islamic Hausa medical systems: the mode of preserving and communicating medical knowledge. The early history of Islamic medicine is also described, and its theories, concepts and historical developments are explored.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek |
Abstract | The author reflects on the studies conducted by various researchers on the relationship of Islam and mental health. It is being stressed by the author that there is a positive relation between religiosity and both mental and subjective well-being, and a negative association between religiosity and psychopathology. It adds that the similarities between monotheistic religions overshadow the differences regarding the association between religiosity and mental health. |
Publication | Mental Health, Religion & Culture |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 87-92 |
Date | February 2011 |
DOI | 10.1080/13674676.2010.544867 |
ISSN | 13674676 |
Short Title | Islam and mental health |
Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Hisham Abu Raiya |
Author | Kenneth I. Pargament |
Abstract | In this paper, we attempt to translate empirical findings from a program of research that developed a Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR) into practical clinical applications. The findings from this program of research are complemented and illuminated by findings from other empirical research and clinical work with Muslims. Our recommendations can be summarized as follows. First, clinicians should inquire directly about the place of religion in the lives of their Muslim clients. Second, mental health professionals should ask about what Islam means to their clients and educate themselves about basic Islamic beliefs and practices. Third, clinicians should help their Muslim clients draw on Islamic positive religious coping methods to deal with stressors. Fourth, we recommend that clinicians assess for religious struggles, normalize them, help clients find satisfying solutions to these struggles and, if appropriate, refer clients who struggle to a Muslim pastoral counselor or religious leader. Finally, in order to overcome stigma associated with mental health issues, mental health professionals should educate the Islamic public about psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). (from the journal abstract) |
Publication | Professional Psychology: Research and Practice |
Volume | 41 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 181-188 |
Date | April 2010 |
DOI | 10.1037/a0017988 |
ISSN | 0735-7028 |
Short Title | Religiously integrated psychotherapy with Muslim clients |
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Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Jeanne Achterberg |
Edition | 1st ed |
Place | Boston |
Publisher | New Science Library, Shambhala |
Date | 1985 |
ISBN | 0877733074 |
Short Title | Imagery in Healing |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R726.5 .A24 1985 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
This influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. In Imagery in Healing, Jeanne Achterberg brings together modern scientific research and the practices of the earliest healers to support her claim that imagery is the world’s oldest and most powerful healing resource. The book has become a classic in the field of alternative medicine and continues to be read by new generations of health care professionals and lay people. In Imagery in Healing, Achterberg explores in detail the role of the imagination in the healing process. She begins with an exploration of the tradition of shamanism, “the medicine of the imagination,” surveying this time-honored way of touching the nexus of the mind, body, and soul. She then traces the history of the use of imagery within Western medicine, including a look at contemporary examples of how health care professionals have drawn on the power of the imagination through such methods as hypnosis, biofeedback, and the placebo effect. Ultimately, Achterberg looks to the science of immunology to uncover the most effective ground for visualization, and she presents data demonstrating how imagery can have a direct and profound impact on the workings of the immune system. Drawing on art, science, history, anthropology, and medicine, Imagery in Healing offers a highly readable overview of the profound and complex relationship between the imagination and the body.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Vincanne Adams |
Publication | Cultural Anthropology |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 542-575 |
Date | Nov., 2001 |
ISSN | 08867356 |
Short Title | The Sacred in the Scientific |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/656648 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:29:54 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Anthropology and/in/of Science / Full publication date: Nov., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 American Anthropological Association |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Walter Randolph Adams |
Author | John Palmer Hawkins |
Place | Norman |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Date | 2007 |
ISBN | 9780806138596 |
Short Title | Health Care in Maya Guatemala |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | F1435.3.M4 A43 2007 |
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Health Care in Maya Guatemala examines medical systems and institutions in three K’iche’ Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and Guatemalan biomedical system. The editors and contributors show how people in this rapidly modernizing society think about traditional practices--and reveal that health conditions in traditional communities deteriorate over time as long-standing medical practices erode in the face of Western encroachment. The contributors first consider cultural, institutional, and behavioral aspects of health care in Guatemala. Then they look closely at the nature and treatment of specific health issues, such as dentistry and mental health--especially depression. Finally they provide new insight on midwifery, nutrition, ethnomedicine, and other topics.
Type | Book |
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Editor | Vincanne Adams |
Editor | Mona Schrempf |
Editor | Sienna R. Craig |
Series | Epistemologies of Healing |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Date | 2010 |
ISBN | 9781845457587 |
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Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:58:46 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Shaima Ahammed |
Abstract | In recent years there has been increased attention to the importance of appropriate and relevant counseling interventions with culturally and religiously diverse populations. In accordance with the fact that Muslims rely on Qur’anic verses when answering the larger questions of life, “metaphor therapy” comes across as a technique that counselors can employ with Muslim clients. Although several authors have suggested the use of therapeutic metaphors from various religious texts in a broad manner, relatively little has been published on the application of metaphors from the Qur’an in counseling. This article explains the value of Qur’anic metaphors as therapeutic tools in counseling. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract) |
Publication | International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 248-255 |
Date | December 2010 |
DOI | 10.1007/s10447-010-9104-2 |
ISSN | 0165-0653 |
Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:58:46 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:58:46 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Musa Ahmed |
Place | Sa'adu Zungur Kano |
Publisher | Triumph Pub. Co. Ltd. |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 9789781880506 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kamel M Ajlouni |
Abstract | Many historians claim that the Western world pioneered in the setting of ethical, legal and professional standards in the practice of medicine. Informed medical consent is proposed by some as an American invention. Others claim that patient rights and legal protection propose have stated in the early decades of the 20th century. This review is an attempt to uncover the facts regarding the way Arabs practiced medicine during the golden era of Islam. Eight hundred to fifteen hundred AD this includes the qualification of physicians according to a well designed curricula covering the science and humanity of medicine. The rules governing the quality control of health care delivery system and to some degree the principles of informed medical consent and to a lesser degree the principles of litigation are discussed. We hope that this paper will be a call to all humanity loving persons to end prejudices against other people and to stop stereotyping. |
Publication | Saudi Medical Journal |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 8 |
Pages | 820-826 |
Date | Aug 2003 |
Journal Abbr | Saudi Med J |
ISSN | 0379-5284 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12939664 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:27:52 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12939664 |
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Many historians claim that the Western world pioneered in the setting of ethical, legal and professional standards in the practice of medicine. Informed medical consent is proposed by some as an American invention. Others claim that patient rights and legal protection propose have stated in the early decades of the 20th century. This review is an attempt to uncover the facts regarding the way Arabs practiced medicine during the golden era of Islam. Eight hundred to fifteen hundred AD this includes the qualification of physicians according to a well designed curricula covering the science and humanity of medicine. The rules governing the quality control of health care delivery system and to some degree the principles of informed medical consent and to a lesser degree the principles of litigation are discussed. We hope that this paper will be a call to all humanity loving persons to end prejudices against other people and to stop stereotyping.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Catherine L. Albanese |
Publication | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 305-325 |
Date | Jun., 1999 |
ISSN | 00027189 |
Short Title | The Subtle Energies of Spirit |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1465739 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:39:13 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1999 / Copyright © 1999 American Academy of Religion |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Catherine Albanese |
Place | Chicago |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 9780226011455 |
Short Title | Nature religion in America |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
This study reveals an unorganized and previously unacknowledged religion at the heart of American culture. Nature, Albanese argues, has provided a compelling religious center throughout American history.
Type | Book |
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Author | Catherine Albanese |
Place | Harrisburg Pa. |
Publisher | Trinity Press International |
Date | 2002 |
ISBN | 9781563383762 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Nature religion is a much broader and more pervasive part of our culture than we may know. In the late twentieth century, for example, certain nature-based New Age perspectives and practices emerged—developments whose seeds were planted in the nature religion of nineteenth-century America. In Reconsidering Nature Religion, Catherine Albanese looks at the place where nature and religion come together, and explores how this operates in contemporary life and thinking. Nature, she says, functions as an absolute that grounds and orients life. Religion concerns the ways that people use this absolute of nature to form a meaningful life. And religion itself provides ways of interacting with nature. Nature religion is one essential way that people relate to the ordinary and extra-ordinary aspects of their worlds. It was so for people like the famous naturalist John Muir, and remains so for us today. For all of us, nature works in a religious way that informs and transforms life.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Mohammad Al-Kassimi |
Publication | Clinical Medicine (London, England) |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 52-53 |
Date | 2003 Jan-Feb |
Journal Abbr | Clin Med |
ISSN | 1470-2118 |
Short Title | Cultural differences |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12617415 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:45:14 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12617415 |
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Islam and Muslims have been in the headlines recently for one reason or another. But the practice of medicine in an Islamic conservative country such as Saudi Arabia has not been adequately reported. Many questions about cultural differences in the practice of medicine have been directed at me by non-Muslim colleagues. Below, I have tried to answer some of them after practising at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Yaseen Ally |
Author | Sumaya Laher |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 45-56 |
Date | Mar 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-007-9133-2 |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
Short Title | South African Muslim Faith Healers perceptions of mental illness |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19105000 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:19:04 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19105000 |
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The important role that religious beliefs may have on perceptions of mental illness cannot be ignored. Many religions including Islam advocate witchcraft and spirit possession--all of which are thought to influence the behaviour of a person so as to resemble that of a mentally ill individual. Thus this research explored Muslim Faith Healers perceptions of mental and spiritual illness in terms of their understanding of the distinctions between the two, the aetiologies and the treatments thereof. Six Muslim Healers in the Johannesburg community were interviewed and thematic content analysis was used to analyse the data. From the results it is clear that the faith healers were aware of the distinction between mental and spiritual illnesses. It was also apparent that Islam has a clear taxonomy that distinguishes illness and the causes thereof. Treatments are then advised accordingly. Thus this paper argues that the predominant Western view of the aetiology and understanding of mental illness needs to acknowledge the various culturally inclined taxonomies of mental illness so as to better understand and aid clients.
Type | Book |
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Author | Joseph Alter |
Place | Princeton N.J. |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Date | 2004 |
ISBN | 9780691118734 |
Short Title | Yoga in modern India |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Joseph S. Alter |
Publication | The Journal of Asian Studies |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 301-322 |
Date | May, 1996 |
ISSN | 00219118 |
Short Title | Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2943361 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:25:23 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: May, 1996 / Copyright © 1996 Association for Asian Studies |
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Joseph S. Alter offers a novel reading of Mahatma Gandhi’s writings on diet, sex, and hygiene. By arguing “that nonviolence was, for him, as much an issue of public health as an issue of politics, morality, and religion,” this reading challenges previous studies that delink Gandhi’s preoccupation with issues of health from his political ideas and agenda as well as works that treat those links together but only in terms of psychological and sociopsychological meta-interpretations. Alter also takes a different line on the Mahtama’s conception of health by contextualizing it within the framework of what he terms “late imperialism,” a framework which enables the author to view his subject’s personal convictions “in the context of colonialism’s impact on subject bodies.” In other words, Gandhi’s personal “experiments with truth,” whether they centered on dietetics, celibacy, hygiene, and nature cure, cannot be separated from his search for truth, or from his belief in nonviolence, or his campaign for sociopolitical reform.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Joseph S Alter |
Publication | The Journal of Asian Studies |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1165-1186 |
Date | Nov 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Asian Stud |
ISSN | 0021-9118 |
Short Title | Rethinking the history of medicine in Asia |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19149016 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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In 1963 Hakim Mohammed Said took a Pakistani delegation from the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine on a monthlong trip to China to meet with and learn from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This essay focuses on Said’s interpretation of the history of medicine in Asia, which was inspired by his trip and informed by a broad, global understanding of how Unani medicine developed from the eighth century to the present. Said’s advocacy of Eastern Medicine provides a way to think about the history of medicine and medical revitalization that is not limited by colonial, postcolonial, or nationalist assumptions and priorities.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | C Alvarez-Millan |
Publication | Social History of Medicine: The Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine / SSHM |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 293-306 |
Date | Aug 2000 |
Journal Abbr | Soc Hist Med |
ISSN | 0951-631X |
Short Title | Practice versus theory |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/14535258 |
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Medicine and disease in medieval Islam have thus far been approached through theoretic medical treatises, on the assumption that learned medical texts are a transparent account of reality. A question yet to be sufficiently explored is the extent to which the ideas and theoretical principles they contain were actually carried out in practice. This paper deals with the description of diseases occurring in a tenth-century Casebook (Kitab al-Tajarib) by Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya’ al-Razi (known to Europeans as Rhazes)-the largest and oldest collection of case histories, so far as is known, in medieval Islamic medical literature. Since the author was a prolific medical writer, this study also includes a review of his medical and therapeutic principles dealing with eye diseases, as described in his learned treatises, and a comparison with those therapies actually employed in his everyday practice, as exemplified by the Casebook. The comparative analysis shows that the medical knowledge and the therapeutic advice so meticulously described in theoretical works were not paralleled in the physician’s medical performance. On the contrary, it appears that learned treatises served other purposes than determining medical practice.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Rômulo Alves |
Author | Humberto N. Alves |
Abstract | ABSTRACT: Zootherapy is the treatment of human ailments with remedies made from animals and their products. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on this phenomenon has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant research. This review discusses some related aspects of the use of animal-based remedies in Latin America, identifies those species used as folk remedies, and discusses the implications of zootherapy for public health and biological conservation. The review of literature revealed that at least 584 animal species, distributed in 13 taxonomic categories, have been used in traditional medicine in region. The number of medicinal species catalogued was quite expansive and demonstrates the importance of zootherapy as an alternative mode of therapy in Latin America. Nevertheless, this number is certainly underestimated since the number of studies on the theme are very limited. Animals provide the raw materials for remedies prescribed clinically and are also used in the form of amulets and charms in magic-religious rituals and ceremonies. Zootherapeutic resources were used to treat different diseases. The medicinal fauna is largely based on wild animals, including some endangered species. Besides being influenced by cultural aspects, the relations between humans and biodiversity in the form of zootherapeutic practices are conditioned by the social and economic relations between humans themselves. Further ethnopharmacological studies are necessary to increase our understanding of the links between traditional uses of faunistic resources and conservation biology, public health policies, sustainable management of natural resources and bio-prospecting. |
Publication | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
Volume | 7 |
Pages | 9 |
Date | 2011 |
Journal Abbr | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed |
DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-7-9 |
ISSN | 1746-4269 |
Short Title | The faunal drugstore |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21385357 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 21385357 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jyoti Anand |
Abstract | The doctrine of Karma enjoys wide acceptance by all cross-sections of the Hindu population. The doctrine is frequently invoked while seeking explanations for various life crises. This study is an effort to delineate its role in the healing process. A narrative study was conducted on middle-to-late age women who had undergone major life crises. Their narratives threw light on how these women used this doctrine to make sense of their suffering and readapt to the changed reality. The belief in the doctrine facilitated acceptance of and emergence from their tragic life events. It was concluded that more systematic work is required to understand the mental representation of the doctrine and its various tenets, which affect the healing process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
Publication | Mental Health, Religion & Culture |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 8 |
Pages | 817-832 |
Date | December 2009 |
DOI | 10.1080/13674670903020889 |
ISSN | 13674676 |
URL | http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/login.aspx? direct=true&db=pbh&AN=45427285&… |
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Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Augustine A Aryee |
Date | 1983 |
Short Title | The Coexistence of Traditional and Modern Medicine in Nigeria |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | PhD |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jane Monnig Atkinson |
Publication | Annual Review of Anthropology |
Volume | 21 |
Pages | 307-330 |
Date | 1992 |
ISSN | 00846570 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2155990 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:39:36 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1992 / Copyright © 1992 Annual Reviews |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | T A Baasher |
Publication | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal = La Revue De Santé De La Méditerranée Orientale = Al-Majallah Al-Ṣiḥḥīyah Li-Sharq Al-Mutawassiṭ |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 372-376 |
Date | May 2001 |
Journal Abbr | East. Mediterr. Health J |
ISSN | 1020-3397 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12690755 |
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This paper discusses the importance of a spiritual element in health with particular reference to mental health and Islam. The Islamic spiritual quest is outlined and some directives described. Specific examples are given of their application to health.
Type | Book |
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Author | Hans A Baer |
Place | Madison, Wisconsin |
Publisher | The University of Wisconsin Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 0299166902 |
Short Title | Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA418.3.U6 B34 2001 |
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Examining medical pluralism in the United States from the Revolutionary War period through the end of the twentieth century, Hans Baer brings together in one convenient reference a vast array of information on healing systems as diverse as Christian Science, osteopathy, acupuncture, Santeria, southern Appalachian herbalism, evangelical faith healing, and Navajo healing. In a country where the dominant paradigm of biomedicine (medical schools, research hospitals, clinics staffed by M.D.s and R.N.s,) has been long established and supported by laws and regulations, the continuing appeal of other medical systems and subsystems bears careful consideration. Distinctions of class, Baer emphasizes, as well as differences in race, ethnicity, and gender, are fundamental to the diversity of beliefs, techniques, and social organizations represented in the phenomenon of medical pluralism. Baer traces the simultaneous emergence in the nineteenth century of formalized biomedicine and of homeopathy, botanic medicine, hydropathy, Christian Science, osteopathy, and chiropractic. He examines present-day osteopathic medicine as a system parallel to biomedicine with an emphasis on primary care; chiropractic, naturopathy, and acupuncture as professionalized heterodox medical systems; homeopathy, herbalism, bodywork, and lay midwifery in the context of the holistic health movement; Anglo-American religious healing; and folk medical systems, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities. In closing, he focuses on the persistence of folk medical systems among working-class Americans and considers the growing interest of biomedical physicians, pharmaceutical and health care corporations, and government in the holistic health movement.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Hans A. Baer |
Abstract | Naturopathic medicine in the United States had its inception around the turn of the 20th century. Subsequently, it underwent a process of relatively rapid growth until around the 1930s, followed by a period of gradual decline almost to the point of extinction due to biomedical opposition and the advent of "miracle drugs." Because its therapeutic eclecticism had preadapted it to fit into the holistic health movement that emerged in the 1970s, it was able to undergo a process of organizational rejuvenation during the last two decades of the century. Nevertheless, U.S. naturopathy as a professionalized heterodox medical system faces several dilemmas as it enters the new millennium. These include (1) the fact that it has succeeded in obtaining licensure in only two sections of the country, namely, the Far West and New England; (2) increasing competition from partially professionalized and lay naturopaths, many of whom are graduates of correspondence schools; and (3) the danger of cooptation as many biomedical practitioners adopt natural therapies. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 329-346 |
Date | Sep., 2001 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/649583 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:13:08 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 American Anthropological Association |
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Naturopathic medicine in the United States had its inception around the turn of the 20th century. Subsequently, it underwent a process of relatively rapid growth until around the 1930s, followed by a period of gradual decline almost to the point of extinction due to biomedical opposition and the advent of “miracle drugs.” Because its therapeutic eclecticism had preadapted it to fit into the holistic health movement that emerged in the 1970s, it was able to undergo a process of organizational rejuvenation during the last two decades of the century. Nevertheless, U.S. naturopathy as a professionalized heterodox medical system faces several dilemmas as it enters the new millennium. These include (1) the fact that it has succeeded in obtaining licensure in only two sections of the country, namely, the Far West and New England; (2) increasing competition from partially professionalized and lay naturopaths, many of whom are graduates of correspondence schools; and (3) the danger of cooptation as many biomedical practitioners adopt natural therapies.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Hans A. Baer |
Abstract | Although osteopathy and chiropractic emerged as medical revitalization movements with a similar disease theory during the late 19th century, osteopathy has evolved into osteopathic medicine and surgery, and chiropractic has evolved into a musculoskeletal speciality. In this article I attempt to explain the divergent evolution of these two schools of manual medicine in the United States by considering their respective roles in addressing various structural problems in American health care, their contrasting relationships with biomedicine, organized biomedicine's stance toward the two alternative medical systems, and internal organizational conflicts within osteopathy and chiropractic. It will also show that both osteopathy and chiropractic were forced to some degree to converge with biomedicine both conceptually and therapeutically. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 176-193 |
Date | Jun., 1987 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
Short Title | Divergence and Convergence in Two Systems of Manual Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/648756 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:16:42 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 American Anthropological Association |
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Although osteopathy and chiropractic emerged as medical revitalization movements with a similar disease theory during the late 19th century, osteopathy has evolved into osteopathic medicine and surgery, and chiropractic has evolved into a musculoskeletal speciality. In this article I attempt to explain the divergent evolution of these two schools of manual medicine in the United States by considering their respective roles in addressing various structural problems in American health care, their contrasting relationships with biomedicine, organized biomedicine’s stance toward the two alternative medical systems, and internal organizational conflicts within osteopathy and chiropractic. It will also show that both osteopathy and chiropractic were forced to some degree to converge with biomedicine both conceptually and therapeutically.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Zuhal Bahar |
Author | Hale Okçay |
Author | S Ozbiçakçi |
Author | Ayse Beşer |
Author | Besti Ustün |
Author | Meryem Oztürk |
Abstract | The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Islam as a religion and culture on Turkish women's health. The study included 138 household members residing in the territory of three primary health care centers in Turkey: Güzelbahçe, Fahrettin Altay and Esentepe. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire prepared by a multidisciplinary team that included specialists from the departments of public health, psychiatric nursing and sociology. We found that the women's health behavior changed from traditional to rational as education levels increased, and that religious and traditional attitudes and behaviors were predominant in the countryside, especially practices related to pregnancy, delivery, the postpartum period, induced abortion and family planning. One of the most important prerequisites for the improvement of women's health is that nurses should know the religious practices and culture of the society for which they provide care, so that their efforts to protect and improve women's health will be effective. |
Publication | Nursing Ethics |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 557-570 |
Date | Nov 2005 |
Journal Abbr | Nurs Ethics |
ISSN | 0969-7330 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16312085 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:36:11 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Islam as a religion and culture on Turkish women’s health. The study included 138 household members residing in the territory of three primary health care centers in Turkey: Güzelbahçe, Fahrettin Altay and Esentepe. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire prepared by a multidisciplinary team that included specialists from the departments of public health, psychiatric nursing and sociology. We found that the women’s health behavior changed from traditional to rational as education levels increased, and that religious and traditional attitudes and behaviors were predominant in the countryside, especially practices related to pregnancy, delivery, the postpartum period, induced abortion and family planning. One of the most important prerequisites for the improvement of women’s health is that nurses should know the religious practices and culture of the society for which they provide care, so that their efforts to protect and improve women’s health will be effective.
Type | Book |
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Author | Kenneth L Bakken |
Author | Kathleen H Hofeller |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 0824508815 |
Short Title | The Journey Toward Wholeness |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BT732 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Scott Bamber |
Publication | Asian Folklore Studies |
Volume | 46 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 179-195 |
Date | 1987 |
ISSN | 03852342 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1178583 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:08:49 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1987 / Copyright © 1987 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Linda Barnes |
Place | Cambridge Mass. |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Date | 2005 |
ISBN | 9780674018723 |
Short Title | Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Linda L Barnes |
Author | Inés Talamantez |
Contributor | American Academy of Religion |
Place | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 2006 |
ISBN | 019517643X |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BL41 .T43 2006 |
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This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions. The primary target audience comprises faculty in religious studies, divinity schools, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. However, the volume also addresses the needs of educators training pre-med students and will be an invaluable resource for those involved in educating physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as “cultural competence” - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.
Type | Book |
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Author | David Baronov |
Place | Philadelphia |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 1592139159 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GN645 .B37 2008 |
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Beginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange contends that contemporary African medical systems—no less “biomedical” than Western medicine—in fact greatly enrich and expand the notion of biomedicine, reframing it as a global cultural form deployed across global networks of cultural exchange. The book analyzes biomedicine as a complex and dynamic sociocultural form, the conceptual premises of which make it necessarily subject to ongoing change and development as it travels the globe. David Baronov captures the complexities of this cultural exchange by using world-systems analysis in a way that places global cultural processes on equal footing with political and economic processes. In doing so, he both allows the story of Africa’s transformation of “Western” biomedicine to be told and offers new insights into the capitalist world system.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ven. Sreemat Swapan Kumar Barua |
Abstract | The author presents a Buddhist understanding of the cognitive process of incoming information, its circulation and its congruent reactions based on the Buddhist spiritual meditative tradition of South and Southeast Asia. He asserts that Buddha can be credited as the first cognitive psychologist who propounded one of the most comprehensive analytic systems of cognitive process with an ultimate aim of achieving an altered psychological state of positive change and equilibrium reaction. Abstract from a paper given at the Epilepsy, Brain and Mind conference in March 2010, in Prague, Czech Republic. |
Publication | Epilepsy & Behavior |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 598 |
Date | April 2010 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.01.090 |
ISSN | 1525-5050 |
Short Title | 65. Cognitive process |
Accessed | Friday, May 07, 2010 2:59:14 PM |
Library Catalog | ScienceDirect |
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Applies Buddhist philosophy to cognitive processes; positions BUddha as a cognitive psychologist meditation The author presents a Buddhist understanding of the cognitive process of incoming information, its circulation and its congruent reactions based on the Buddhist spiritual meditative tradition of South and Southeast Asia. He asserts that Buddha can be credited as the first cognitive psychologist who propounded one of the most comprehensive analytic systems of cognitive process with an ultimate aim of achieving an altered psychological state of positive change and equilibrium reaction. Abstract from a paper given at the Epilepsy, Brain and Mind conference in March 2010, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Manu Bazzano |
Abstract | The paper explores links between the person-centered approach (PCA) and meditation. It is divided into two parts. The first part begins with a description of the author's own experience of meditation. It is followed by a brief discussion of other approaches which similarly attempt the integration of meditation and psychotherapy: mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, transpersonal and psychodynamic models, and by what might constitute an alternative paradigm, one based on phenomenological principles which are central to the PCA. The second part outlines interviews and findings of a small-scale heuristic and phenomenological research (originally part of a dissertation) conducted among person-centered therapists who regularly practice meditation. Meditation is tentatively realized as a way of increasing organismic and phenomenological awareness, of cultivating and refining a way of being, of fostering a re-sacralization of the everyday and a greater appreciation of the existential dilemma of being human. |
Publication | Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 116-128 |
Date | 06/2011 |
Journal Abbr | Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies |
DOI | 10.1080/14779757.2011.576560 |
ISSN | 1477-9757 |
Short Title | The Buddha as a fully functioning person |
URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14779757.2011.576560 |
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Library Catalog | CrossRef |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Jay H Bernstein |
Place | Boulder, Colo |
Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Date | 1997 |
ISBN | 1555876927 |
Short Title | Spirits Captured in Stone |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | DS646.32.T35 B47 1997 |
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This work examines Shamanism and healing practices among the Taman of Borneo. It contributes to contemporary debates in cultural and medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion and magic, ritual, folklore, and Southeast Asian ethnography.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A D Bhatt |
Publication | The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India |
Volume | 49 |
Pages | 558-562 |
Date | May 2001 |
Journal Abbr | J Assoc Physicians India |
ISSN | 0004-5772 |
Short Title | Clinical research on ayurvedic therapeutics |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11361273 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:40:13 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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Globally there is an increasing interest in alternative routes to health such as ayurveda. There is a need to conduct globally acceptable clinical research in ayurvedic therapeutics (AT). Some of the issues in investigating AT in randomised clinical trials (CT) are: selection of appropriate AT, non-drug and/or drug AT, identification of objective outcomes, devising adequate placebo/positive controls, difficulties of blinding, guarding against bias, duration of trials, number of patients, dose optimisation, etc. There is also a need to establish reasonable safety of this therapy in CT. If AT has to complete with new chemical entities and biotechnology products, clinical research and development of AT should be focussed on unmet medical needs utilising principles and practices of modern CT approaches.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | S Bhobe |
Publication | The Nursing Journal of India |
Volume | 91 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 33, 42 |
Date | Feb 2000 |
Journal Abbr | Nurs J India |
ISSN | 0029-6503 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/15326755 |
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Yoga is a science of Holistic living and not merely a set of Asanas and Pranayama. It is a psycho physical and spiritual science, which aims at the harmonious development of the human body, mind and soul. Yoga is the conscious art of self-discovery. It is a process by which animal man ascends through the stages from normal man to super man and then the divine man. It is an expansion of the narrow constricted egoistic personality to an all-pervasive eternal and blissful state of reality. Yoga is an all round development of personality at physical, mental intellectual, emotional and spiritual level.
Type | Book |
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Editor | Peter Biller |
Editor | Joseph Ziegler |
Series | York studies in medieval theology |
Series Number | 3 |
Place | Woodbridge, Suffolk |
Publisher | York Medieval Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 1903153077 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX1795.H4 R45 2001 |
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The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies. The book reflects the extraordinary advances which ‘pure’ history of medicine has made in the last twenty years: there is medicine at the levels of midwife and village practitioner, the sweep of the learned Greek and Latin tradition of over a millennium; there is control of midwifery by the priest, therapy through liturgy, medicine as an expression of religious life for heretics, medicine invading theologians’ discussion of earthly paradise; and so on.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Anne D. Birdwhistell |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 45 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-28 |
Date | Jan., 1995 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1399507 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:09:21 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1995 / Copyright © 1995 University of Hawai'i Press |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Gilles Boileau |
Abstract | Since Shangdai de shenhua yu wushu, Chen Mengjia's article on Shang mythology, some sinological works have proposed that the Chinese wu was an equivalent of the Siberian shaman. I examine first the issues in anthropological comparatism involved in this problem and provide up-to-date information on Siberian shamanism. It must be noted that the Chinese texts are by no means equivalent to modern anthropological data and that these texts did not originate directly from the wu themselves; they are rather a collection of opinions or stories on the wu. Detailed study of the nature and social status of the Chinese wu, either in oracular inscriptions or late Zhou received texts, shows a systematic association of the wu with non-auspicious or negative events, like funerals, death or natural catastrophes. A further analysis of the data reveals that the wu's activities in relation to natural phenomena were frequently presented in terms related to sexuality. This last point permits a comparison with Siberian shamans, whose activities are also linked to fecundity and sexuality, although the Chinese texts often associate the wu with sexual misbehaviour and blame them on moral grounds. They go as far as to treat them as dangerous sorcerers who must be weeded out. According to these data, the wu's social function is linked to the handling of misfortune, either directly or by being associated with ritually unacceptable behaviours. On the whole, my conclusion is that even the common point between wu and Siberian shaman (the link with sexuality) is not sufficient to allow for a translation of 'wu' by 'shaman', especially in view of the differences of social and historical context. |
Publication | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
Volume | 65 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 350-378 |
Date | 2002 |
ISSN | 0041977X |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/4145619 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:46:13 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 2002 / Copyright © 2002 School of Oriental and African Studies |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Since Shangdai de shenhua yu wushu, Chen Mengjia’s article on Shang mythology, some sinological works have proposed that the Chinese wu was an equivalent of the Siberian shaman. I examine first the issues in anthropological comparatism involved in this problem and provide up-to-date information on Siberian shamanism. It must be noted that the Chinese texts are by no means equivalent to modern anthropological data and that these texts did not originate directly from the wu themselves; they are rather a collection of opinions or stories on the wu. Detailed study of the nature and social status of the Chinese wu, either in oracular inscriptions or late Zhou received texts, shows a systematic association of the wu with non-auspicious or negative events, like funerals, death or natural catastrophes. A further analysis of the data reveals that the wu’s activities in relation to natural phenomena were frequently presented in terms related to sexuality. This last point permits a comparison with Siberian shamans, whose activities are also linked to fecundity and sexuality, although the Chinese texts often associate the wu with sexual misbehaviour and blame them on moral grounds. They go as far as to treat them as dangerous sorcerers who must be weeded out. According to these data, the wu’s social function is linked to the handling of misfortune, either directly or by being associated with ritually unacceptable behaviours. On the whole, my conclusion is that even the common point between wu and Siberian shaman (the link with sexuality) is not sufficient to allow for a translation of ‘wu’ by ‘shaman’, especially in view of the differences of social and historical context.
Type | Book |
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Author | John Bowker |
Place | Cambridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Date | 1970 |
ISBN | 9780521074124 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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A comparative general study of the problems of suffering as treated by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Marxism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Type | Book |
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Author | Erika Brady |
Place | Logan Utah |
Publisher | Utah State University Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 9780874214116 |
Short Title | Healing logics |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Healing Logics provides an extensive, multicultural look at folk and alternative beliefs and practices concerning health and medicine and examines the interplay between formal and folk health care. It contains the following original contributions by leading scholars in the fields of medical anthropology and folk medicine.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Harry Brewer |
Publication | The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health |
Volume | 124 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 184-187 |
Date | Jul 2004 |
Journal Abbr | J R Soc Promot Health |
ISSN | 1466-4240 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/15301318 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:39:30 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 15301318 |
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The Arabian conquests during and after the 7th century led to a spread of Islam as well as the consequential influence of theology on health through the teachings of the Qur’an (Koran). Although traditional medicine was widely accepted and used, the character of early aggrandisement of Arabic medicine involved a facility for adapting and absorbing Graeco-Roman knowledge. The translation schools and libraries, famous in both the East and West, preserved and expanded the knowledge acquired. European academic learning owed much to the Arabs. Information came through Spain to Italy, France and, later on, England. The founding of hospitals, whilst not an Arab initiative, received a fillip from the religious prescriptions for care of the sick. The Military Orders developed specialist institutions for the sick, probably as a result of what they saw during their sojourn in the Middle East. The legacy of Arabic medical care is still with us today and deserves understanding and greater appreciation.
Type | Book |
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Author | Mary Louise Bringle |
Place | Nashville |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 0687104939 |
Short Title | Despair, Sickness or Sin? |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BT774.5 .B75 1990 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lori A. Brotto |
Author | Lisa Mehak |
Author | Cassandra Kit |
Abstract | Yoga is an ancient practice with Eastern roots that involves both physical postures (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayamas). There is also a cognitive component focusing on meditation and concentration, which aids in achieving the goal of union between the self and the spiritual. Although numerous empirical studies have found a beneficial effect of yoga on different aspects of physical and psychological functioning, claims of yoga's beneficial effects on sexuality derive from a rich but nonempirical literature. The goal of this article is to review the philosophy and forms of yoga, to review the nonempirical and (limited) empirical literatures linking yoga with enhanced sexuality, and to propose some future research avenues focusinging on yoga as a treatment for sexual complaints. |
Publication | Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 378-390 |
Date | October 2009 |
DOI | 10.1080/00926230903065955 |
ISSN | 0092623X |
Short Title | Yoga and Sexual Functioning |
URL | http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/login.aspx? direct=true&db=pbh&AN=44032289&… |
Accessed | Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:11:56 PM |
Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:55 AM |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Louise D. Bryant |
Author | Shenaz Ahmed |
Author | Mushtaq Ahmed |
Author | Hussain Jafri |
Author | Yasmin Raashid |
Abstract | Understanding the psychosocial impact of a congenital condition such as Down syndrome on affected individuals and their family requires an understanding of the cultural context in which they are situated. This study carried out in 2008 used Q-Methodology to characterize understandings of Down syndrome (DS) in Pakistan in a sample of health professionals, researchers and parents of children with the condition. Fifty statements originally developed for a UK study and translated into Urdu were Q-sorted by 60 participants. The use of factor analytic techniques identified three independent accounts and qualitative data collected during the Q-sorting exercise supported their interpretation. In two accounts, the 'will of God' was central to an understanding of the existence of people with DS although perceptions about the value and quality of life of the affected individual differed significantly between these accounts as did views about the impact on the family. The third account privileged a more 'scientific worldview' of DS as a genetic abnormality but also a belief that society can further contribute to disabling those affected. Attitudes towards prenatal testing and termination of pregnancy demonstrated that a belief in the will of Allah was not necessarily associated with a rejection of these technologies. Accounts reflect the religious, cultural and economic context of Pakistan and issues associated with raising a child with a learning disability in that country. |
Publication | Social Science & Medicine (1982) |
Volume | 72 |
Issue | 8 |
Pages | 1393-1399 |
Date | Apr 2011 |
Journal Abbr | Soc Sci Med |
DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.036 |
ISSN | 1873-5347 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21470731 |
Accessed | Monday, May 09, 2011 7:05:24 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 21470731 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Lester E Bush |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1993 |
ISBN | 0824512197 |
Short Title | Health and Medicine Among the Latter-Day Saints |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX8643.H8 B87 1993 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | W. F Bynum |
Place | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 9780199215430 |
Short Title | History of Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R131 .B974 2008 |
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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval tradition and the Enlightenment to the present day. Taking a thematic rather than strictly chronological approach, W.F. Bynum, explores the key turning points in the history of Western medicine-such as the first surgical procedures, the advent of hospitals, the introduction of anesthesia, X-Rays, vaccinations, and many other innovations, as well as the rise of experimental medicine. The book also explores Western medicine’s encounters with Chinese and Indian medicine, as well as nontraditional treatments such as homeopathy, chiropractic, and other alternative medicines. Covering a vast amount of information, this Very Short Introduction sheds new light on medicine’s past, while at the same time engaging with contemporary issues, discoveries, and controversies, such as the spiraling costs of health care, lack of health insurance for millions, breakthrough treatments, and much more.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Sandra Carlisle |
Author | Gregor Henderson |
Author | Phil W Hanlon |
Abstract | In the now vast empirical and theoretical literature on wellbeing knowledge of the subject is provided mainly by psychology and economics, where understanding of the concept are framed in very different ways. We briefly rehearse these, before turning to some important critical points which can be made about this burgeoning research industry, including the tight connections between the meanings of the concept with the moral value systems of particular 'modern' societies. We then argue that both the 'science' of wellbeing and its critique are, despite their diversity, re-connected by and subsumed within the emerging environmental critique of modern consumer society. This places concerns for individual and social wellbeing within the broader context of global human problems and planetary wellbeing. A growing number of thinkers now suggest that Western society and culture are dominated by materialistic and individualistic values, made manifest at the political and social levels through the unending pursuit of economic growth, and at the individual level by the seemingly endless quest for consumer goods, regardless of global implications such as broader environmental harms. The escalating growth of such values is associated with a growing sense of individual alienation, social fragmentation and civic disengagement and with the decline of more spiritual, moral and ethical aspects of life. Taken together, these multiple discourses suggest that wellbeing can be understood as a collateral casualty of the economic, social and cultural changes associated with late modernity. However, increasing concerns for the environment have the potential to counter some of these trends, and in so doing could also contribute to our wellbeing as individuals and as social beings in a finite world. |
Publication | Social Science & Medicine |
Volume | 69 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 1556-1560 |
Date | Nov 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Soc Sci Med |
DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.029 |
ISSN | 1873-5347 |
Short Title | 'Wellbeing' |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19765875 |
Accessed | Monday, November 23, 2009 7:39:44 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19765875 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Giles N Cattermole |
Publication | BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) |
Volume | 332 |
Issue | 7533 |
Pages | 120-121 |
Date | Jan 14, 2006 |
Journal Abbr | BMJ |
DOI | 10.1136/bmj.332.7533.120-c |
ISSN | 1468-5833 |
Short Title | How Islam changed medicine |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16410599 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:35:19 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 16410599 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | S Chattopadhyay |
Publication | Journal of Postgraduate Medicine |
Volume | 53 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 262 |
Date | 2007 |
Journal Abbr | J Postgrad Med |
DOI | 10.4103/0022-3859.33967 |
ISSN | 0022-3859 |
URL | http://www.jpgmonline.com/text.asp? 2007/53/4/262/33967 |
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Religion, spirituality, health and medicine have common roots in the conceptual framework of relationship amongst human beings, nature and God. Of late, there has been a surge in interest in understanding the interplay of religion, spirituality, health and medicine, both in popular and scientific literature. A number of published empirical studies suggest that religious involvement is associated with better outcomes in physical and mental health. Despite some methodological limitations, these studies do point towards a positive association between religious involvement and better health. When faced with disease, disability and death, many patients would like physicians to address their emotional and spiritual needs, as well. The renewed interest in the interaction of religion and spirituality with health and medicine has significant implications in the Indian context. Although religion is translated as dharma in major Indian languages, dharma and religion are etymologically different and dharma is closer to spirituality than religion as an organized institution. Religion and spirituality play important roles in the lives of millions of Indians and therefore, Indian physicians need to respectfully acknowledge religious issues and address the spiritual needs of their patients. Incorporating religion and spirituality into health and medicine may also go a long way in making the practice of medicine more holistic, ethical and compassionate. It may also offer new opportunities to learn more about Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine and have more enriched understanding and collaborative interaction between different systems of medicine. Indian physicians may also find religion and spirituality significant and fulfilling in their own lives.
Type | Book |
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Author | G. L Chavunduka |
Place | Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe |
ISBN | 0908307403 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR358.6 .C48 1994 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Leigh N B Chipman |
Publication | Medicine and Law |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 321-338 |
Date | 2002 |
Journal Abbr | Med Law |
ISSN | 0723-1393 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12184610 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:48:18 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12184610 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:49:39 AM |
Most work on Islamic medical ethics has been in relation to the physician, yet physicians are only one category of many health-related professionals. In view of its role as mediator between the layman and medication, pharmacy is of perhaps equal importance. In medieval Islam, there seems to have been a clear differentiation between the physician and the pharmacist. However, most of our sources reflect the physician’s point of view. A text which uniquely reflects that of the pharmacist is the thirteenth-century Minhaj al-dukkan by al-Kuhin al-’Attar of Cairo. A comparison between the ethical contents of this book, and of similar works aimed at physicians, can indicate what the differences and similarities were between the “good physician” and the “good pharmacist.” Interestingly, the language used to define the “go od” professional is religiously neutral--there is nothing to evince a particular identity, beyond a general monotheism, on the part of the writers.
Type | Book |
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Author | John T Chirban |
Place | Brookline, MA |
Publisher | Holy Cross Orthodox Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 1885652496 |
Short Title | Sickness or Sin |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX323 .S53 2001 |
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This book makes a tremendously important contribution to the dialogue between Christian faith and the healing professions. Noting that “knowing what to do and how and when to do it characterizes the essence of spiritual discernment and differential diagnosis,” John Chirban has focused this collection of articles around the critical issue of understanding in the therapeutic encounter. Drawing on the richness of the Orthodox Christian tradition, contributors identify rich resources to aid this process of therapeutic discernment. The result is a book that should be recognized for its value not only to Orthodox Christians but to all Christians with interest in under-standing the nature of personal formation, deformation and transformation.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Arvind Chopra |
Author | Vijay V Doiphode |
Publication | The Medical Clinics of North America |
Volume | 86 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 75-89, vii |
Date | Jan 2002 |
Journal Abbr | Med. Clin. North Am |
ISSN | 0025-7125 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11795092 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:39:34 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 11795092 |
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In the prebiblical Ayurvedic origins, every creation inclusive of a human being is a model of the universe. In this model, the basic matter and the dynamic forces (Dosha) of the nature determine health and disease, and the medicinal value of any substance (plant and mineral). The Ayurvedic practices (chiefly that of diet, life style, and the Panchkarama) aim to maintain the Dosha equilibrium. Despite a holistic approach aimed to cure disease, therapy is customized to the individual's constitution (Prakruti). Numerous Ayurvedic medicines (plant derived in particular) have been tested for their biological (especially immunomodulation) and clinical potential using modern ethnovalidation, and thereby setting an interface with modern medicine. To understand Ayurvedic medicine, it would be necessary to first understand the origin, basic concept and principles of Ayurveda.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Elizabeth M Coker |
Abstract | Egyptian society is engaged in a culture-wide debate over definitions of abnormality, local constructions of which are rooted in ideas about the body and the soul in relation to society as a whole. This is reflected in the continuing recourse to religious healers or texts, as well as in heated debates over the moral, social, religious and legal status of religious healers, in particular the relatively recent and more orthodox "Qur'anic healers." The present study used a primarily qualitative analysis of Egyptian newspaper articles to explore media portrayals of this debate with a focus on how these contradictory cultural themes are situated and contested. The results show that psychiatric hegemony is reflected in media language that gives primacy to certain discourses over others, but that religious healing and religion in general exert an equal, if not more powerful influence on the form of these media portrayals. Different strategies used to negotiate the tensions between Qur'anic healing and psychiatry by those on both sides of the argument come across in the ways these arguments are portrayed in the media. |
Publication | Transcultural Psychiatry |
Volume | 46 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 672-694 |
Date | Dec 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Transcult Psychiatry |
DOI | 10.1177/1363461509351390 |
ISSN | 1461-7471 |
Short Title | Claiming the Public Soul |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20028683 |
Accessed | Monday, December 28, 2009 2:30:33 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20028683 |
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Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:21 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lisa Conboy |
Author | Ingrid Edshteyn |
Author | Hilary Garivaltis |
Publication | TheScientificWorldJournal |
Volume | 9 |
Pages | 272-280 |
Date | 2009 |
Journal Abbr | ScientificWorldJournal |
DOI | 10.1100/tsw.2009.35 |
ISSN | 1537-744X |
Short Title | Ayurveda and Panchakarma |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19412555 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:16:59 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19412555 |
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Ayurveda, the traditional medical system of India, is understudied in western contexts. Using data gathered from an Ayurvedic treatment program, this study examined the role of psychosocial factors in the process of behavior change and the salutogenic process. This observational study examined associations with participation in the 5-day Ayurvedic cleansing retreat program, Panchakarma. Quality of life, psychosocial, and behavior change measurements were measured longitudinally on 20 female participants. Measurements were taken before the start of the program, immediately after the program, and 3 months postprogram. The program did not significantly improve quality of life. Significant improvements were found in self-efficacy towards using Ayurveda to improve health and reported positive health behaviors. In addition, perceived social support and depression showed significant improvements 3 months postprogram after the subjects had returned to their home context. As a program of behavior change, our preliminary results suggest that the complex intervention Panchakarma may be effective in assisting one’s expected and reported adherence to new and healthier behavior patterns.
Type | Book |
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Author | Robert J Conley |
Place | Norman [Okla.] |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Date | 2005 |
ISBN | 0806136650 |
Short Title | Cherokee Medicine Man |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | E99.C5 L54 2005 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world “what Indian medicine is really about.” For Little Bear, as for the Cherokee ancestors who brought their traditions over the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, the medicine is about helping people. Visitors from neighboring states and Mexico come to him, each one seeking help for a different kind of problem. Each seeker’s story is presented here exactly as it was told to Conley
Type | Book |
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Editor | Linda Connor |
Editor | Geoffrey Samuel |
Place | Westport, CT |
Publisher | Bergin & Garvey |
Date | 2000 |
ISBN | 0897897153 |
Short Title | Healing Powers and Modernity |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA418.3.A78 H43 2000 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Connor and Samuel explore the present state of a range of healing traditions in their Asian locales. The peoples examined include relatively remote populations such as the Iban of Sarawak, the Temiar of Malaysia, and the Sasak of Lomboko, as well as rural South Indians and Malays, the people of South Korea’s modern industrial cities, and Tibetans both in Chinese-controlled Tibet and in the refugee settlements of North India.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Richard A. Cooper |
Author | Heather J. McKee |
Abstract | Chiropractic is the best established of the alternative health care professions. Although marginalized for much of the 20th century, it has entered the mainstream of health care, gaining both legitimacy and access to third-party payers. However, the profession's efforts to validate the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy, its principal modality, have yielded only modest and often contrary results. At the same time, reimbursement is shrinking, the number of practitioners is growing, and competition from other healing professions is increasing. The profession's efforts to establish a role in primary care are meeting resistance, and its attempts to broaden its activities in alternative medicine have inherent limitations. Although patients express a high level of satisfaction with chiropractic treatment and politicians are sympathetic to it, this may not be enough as our nation grapples to define the health care system that it can afford. |
Publication | The Milbank Quarterly |
Volume | 81 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 107-138 |
Date | 2003 |
ISSN | 0887378X |
Short Title | Chiropractic in the United States |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3655821 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:21:28 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 2003 / Copyright © 2003 Milbank Memorial Fund |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Chiropractic is the best established of the alternative health care professions. Although marginalized for much of the 20th century, it has entered the mainstream of health care, gaining both legitimacy and access to third-party payers. However, the profession’s efforts to validate the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy, its principal modality, have yielded only modest and often contrary results. At the same time, reimbursement is shrinking, the number of practitioners is growing, and competition from other healing professions is increasing. The profession’s efforts to establish a role in primary care are meeting resistance, and its attempts to broaden its activities in alternative medicine have inherent limitations. Although patients express a high level of satisfaction with chiropractic treatment and politicians are sympathetic to it, this may not be enough as our nation grapples to define the health care system that it can afford.
Type | Book |
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Author | Harold Coward |
Place | Albany |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Date | 2002 |
ISBN | 9780791454992 |
Short Title | Yoga and psychology |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ralph C. Croizier |
Publication | Comparative Studies in Society and History |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 275-291 |
Date | Jul., 1970 |
ISSN | 00104175 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/178238 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:22:36 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul., 1970 / Copyright © 1970 Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Andrew Dawson |
Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
ISBN | 9781848851627 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:59:19 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:59:19 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Domenico De Maio |
Publication | Medicina Nei Secoli |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 39-68 |
Date | 2002 |
Journal Abbr | Med Secoli |
ISSN | 0394-9001 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12747380 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:44:16 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12747380 |
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Modified | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:50:05 AM |
Although psychiatric therapy and pharmacology in Medieval Islam are based on the ancient Greek tradition, the original Arabic contribution in the introduction and employment of new substances is undeniable. Another important aspect which received a decisive impetus by Arab physicians was the concept of psychical therapy.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Francisco R. Demetrio |
Publication | Asian Folklore Studies |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 57-75 |
Date | 1978 |
ISSN | 03852342 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1177583 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:45:52 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1978 / Copyright © 1978 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Vinod D. Deshmukh |
Publisher | Nova Science Publishers |
Date | 2011-04 |
ISBN | 1613242956 |
Short Title | The Astonishing Brain and Holistic Consciousness |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:55:49 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:55:49 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Sukh Dev |
Publication | Environmental Health Perspectives |
Volume | 107 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 783-789 |
Date | Oct., 1999 |
ISSN | 00916765 |
Short Title | Ancient-Modern Concordance in Ayurvedic Plants |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3454574 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:17:05 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct., 1999 / Copyright © 1999 The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lobsang Dhondup |
Author | Cynthia Husted |
Abstract | Multiple sclerosis is given as an example of how Tibetan medicine treats disease with its understanding of the interplay of the five elements, three humors, and their qualities and locations. The three-humor interpretation agrees with the microscopic three-humor description of demyelination. Treatments to promote regeneration include complementary medicine. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 115-122 |
Date | 08/2009 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04500.x |
ISSN | 00778923 |
URL | http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04500.x |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:38 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:38 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Yan Y. Dhyansky |
Publication | Artibus Asiae |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 1/2 |
Pages | 89-108 |
Date | 1987 |
ISSN | 00043648 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3249853 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:08:48 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1987 / Copyright © 1987 Artibus Asiae Publishers |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | C. A Dime |
Place | Ekpoma, Nigeria |
Publisher | Edo State University Pub. House |
Date | 1995 |
ISBN | 9782100048 |
Short Title | African Traditional Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR880 .D55 1995 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Assa Doron |
Place | London |
Publisher | Routledge |
Date | 2009 |
ISBN | 9780415556095 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:02:29 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:02:29 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Steven Engler |
Publication | Numen |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 416-463 |
Date | 2003 |
ISSN | 00295973 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3270507 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:14:54 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 2003 / Copyright © 2003 BRILL |
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This paper evaluates claims that classical Ayurveda was scientific, in a modern western sense, and that the many religious and magical elements found in the texts were all either stale Vedic remnants or later brahminic impositions. It argues (1) that Ayurveda did not manifest standard criteria of “science” (e.g., materialism, empirical observation, experimentation, falsification, quantification, or a developed conception of proof) and (2) that Vedic aspects of the classical texts are too central to be considered inauthentic or marginal. These points suggest that attempting to apply the modern western categories of “science” and “religion” to ancient South Asian medical texts at best obscures more important issues and, at worst, imports inappropriate orientalist assumptions. Having set aside the distraction of “science” vs. “religion” in classical Ayurveda, the paper finds support for claims that brahminic elements were later additions to the texts. It concludes by arguing that this is best explained not in terms of a conceptual tension between religion and science but in terms of social and economic tensions between physicians and brahmins.
Type | Book |
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Author | Horacio Fabrega |
Contributor | Daniel B Silver |
Place | Stanford, Calif |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Date | 1973 |
ISBN | 0804708444 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Toyin Falola |
Editor | Matthew M Heaton |
Place | Durham, N.C |
Publisher | Carolina Academic Press |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 1594602433 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R651 .H43 2008 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 4:51:22 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 4:51:22 PM |
Health care in sub-Saharan Africa is and will continue to be an issue of utmost importance in the twenty-first century. As the HIV/AIDS pandemic ravages the continent, the stakes heighten not only to provide effective and efficient health care to African communities, but also to disseminate knowledge about health-seeking behavior and to instill belief among people in the possibility of leading a healthy existence. Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa raises questions and offers analysis on many issues related to how health and illness are understood by communities in Africa, as well as how health knowledge and beliefs are disseminated and utilized to provide health services to African populations. The chapters in this book derive from many different disciplinary approaches and cover regions across sub-Saharan Africa, thus offering a holistic glimpse at the knowledge and belief systems functioning in Africa and the ways that these systems contribute to health care access and delivery in the world’s most endangered continent.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ryan J. Fante |
Abstract | The pursuit of health is one of the most basic and prevalent concerns of humanity. In order to better attain and preserve health, a fundamental and unified description of the concept is required. Using Paul Tillich's ontological framework, I introduce a complete characterization of health and disease is that is useful to the philosophy of medicine and for health-care workers. Health cannot be understood merely as proper functioning of the physical body or of the separated levels of body, mind, and soul. Rather, the multidimensional unity that is the essence of human life requires a new understanding of health as balanced self-integration within the multiple human dimensions. The ontological description of health and disease has concrete implications for how health-care workers should approach healing. It calls for a multidimensional approach to healing in which particular healing is needed and helpful if it considers the other realms of the human. It reveals the importance of accepting limited health as well as the value of faith understood as an ultimate concern because of its ability to wholly integrate the person. |
Publication | Zygon |
Volume | 44 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 65-84 |
Date | 2009 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00986.x |
Short Title | An Ontology of Health |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00986.x |
Accessed | Monday, August 17, 2009 12:00:00 AM |
Library Catalog | Wiley InterScience |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
The pursuit of health is one of the most basic and prevalent concerns of humanity. In order to better attain and preserve health, a fundamental and unified description of the concept is required. Using Paul Tillich’s ontological framework, I introduce a complete characterization of health and disease is that is useful to the philosophy of medicine and for health-care workers. Health cannot be understood merely as proper functioning of the physical body or of the separated levels of body, mind, and soul. Rather, the multidimensional unity that is the essence of human life requires a new understanding of health as balanced self-integration within the multiple human dimensions. The ontological description of health and disease has concrete implications for how health-care workers should approach healing. It calls for a multidimensional approach to healing in which particular healing is needed and helpful if it considers the other realms of the human. It reveals the importance of accepting limited health as well as the value of faith understood as an ultimate concern because of its ability to wholly integrate the person.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wu Fei |
Publication | The China Journal |
Issue | 54 |
Pages | 7-27 |
Date | Jul., 2005 |
ISSN | 13249347 |
Short Title | "Gambling for Qi" |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/20066064 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:47:35 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul., 2005 / Copyright © 2005 Contemporary China Center, Australian National University |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | David M Feldman |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 082450707X |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Jewish Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BM538.H43 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Fabrizio Ferrari |
Series | Routledge South Asian Religion Series |
Edition | 1 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Date | 2010-06-15 |
ISBN | 0415561450 |
Short Title | Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Joseph Henry Fichter |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 0809128071 |
Short Title | Healing Ministries |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BT732 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Gregory P Fields |
Series | SUNY series in religious studies |
Place | Albany |
Publisher | State University of New York |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 0791449157 |
Short Title | Religious Therapeutics |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R606 .F53 2001 |
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Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work’s investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra--three Hindu traditions noteworthy for the central role they accord the body. Author Gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient Hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or body/mind alone. This book elucidates multifaceted views of health, and--in the context of spirituality and healing--explores themes such as mental health, meditation, and music.
Type | Book |
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Author | Phil B Fontanarosa |
Place | Chicago, Ill |
Publisher | American Medical Association |
Date | 2000 |
ISBN | 1579470025 |
Short Title | Alternative Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | George M. Foster |
Publication | American Anthropologist |
Volume | 78 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 773-782 |
Date | Dec., 1976 |
ISSN | 00027294 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/675143 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:09:43 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Dec., 1976 / Copyright © 1976 American Anthropological Association |
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Modified | Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:10:13 AM |
This paper argues that disease etiology is the key to cross-cultural comparison of non-Western medical systems. Two principal etiologies are identified: personalistic and naturalistic. Correlated with personalistic etiologies are the belief that all misfortune, disease included, is explained in the same way; illness, religion, and magic are inseparable; the most powerful curers have supernatural and magical powers, and their primary role is diagnostic. Correlated with naturalistic etiologies are the belief that disease causality has nothing to do with other misfortunes; religion and magic are largely unrelated to illness; the principal curers lack supernatural or magical powers, and their primary role is therapeutic.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | George M. Foster |
Abstract | For the past half-century humoral medicine has been recognized by anthropologists to be the most important and widespread ethnomedical system in Latin America. While most scholars believe this system is largely a simplified folk variant of classical Greek and Persian humoral pathology, a small minority--particularly Audrey Butt Colson and Alfredo López Austin--argues for a New World origin. In this paper the author supports the former hypothesis by tracing the well-documented history of classical medicine from Greece and Persia to Latin America, where it was disseminated via formal medical education, hospitals and missionary orders, home medical guides and pharmacies. The fallacies in the arguments of Colson and López Austin are also pointed out. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 355-393 |
Date | Dec., 1987 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/648542 |
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Library Catalog | JSTOR |
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For the past half-century humoral medicine has been recognized by anthropologists to be the most important and widespread ethnomedical system in Latin America. While most scholars believe this system is largely a simplified folk variant of classical Greek and Persian humoral pathology, a small minority--particularly Audrey Butt Colson and Alfredo López Austin--argues for a New World origin. In this paper the author supports the former hypothesis by tracing the well-documented history of classical medicine from Greece and Persia to Latin America, where it was disseminated via formal medical education, hospitals and missionary orders, home medical guides and pharmacies. The fallacies in the arguments of Colson and López Austin are also pointed out.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | R T Francoeur |
Publication | SIECUS Report |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1-8 |
Date | 1992 Apr-May |
Journal Abbr | SIECUS Rep |
ISSN | 0091-3995 |
Short Title | Sexuality and spirituality |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12343737 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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This article outlines some of the major Eastern sexual and spiritual traditions (primarily Hinduism, Taoism and Tantrism), and discusses their relevance for the contemporary Western world. The article begins by examining the sources of Eastern sexual traditions, before and after the “Axial” period, the turning point at which male consciousness and power gained ascendancy over the female principle. Although a phallocentric view of the world came to dominate the East, Eastern cultures -- unlike the West -- maintained a respect for nature. According to this view, health and spirituality are gained only when humanity respects its place in the cosmos and lives in harmony with nature. The article then examines the sexual traditions of Hinduism, in which sexual asceticism not only coexisted but also complimented the celebration of sexual desire and pleasure. The article then discusses the Taoist traditions, which, among other things, stressed the importance of female sexual satisfaction. Taoism argued that men cannot experience true sexual ecstasy unless they develop the ability to control their ejaculation. The Tantric sexual tradition, the article explains, maintained that ultimate sexual pleasure would enable one to experience the true nature of reality. The article then goes on to review variations of these traditions: the Hindu Tantric Doctrine (Shaktism), the Buddhist Tantric Doctrine, and Tantra and Yoga. Finally, the article considers the relevance of these Eastern philosophies to the Western sexual tradition, which has tended to view sexuality as antagonistic to spiritual liberation.
Type | Book |
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Author | David Frawley |
Place | Salt Lake City, Utah |
Publisher | Passage Press |
Date | 1989 |
ISBN | 1878423002 |
Short Title | Ayurvedic Healing |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | WB 50 JI4 F8a 1989 |
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The immensity of Ayurvedic material and the preexisting vitriol for any attempt at studying it are enough of a deterrent for anyone who wishes to make their mark on the academic community. Yet David Frawley has made a valiant effort with Ayurvedic Healing. Frawley’s presentation is solid, coherent, and contributive to the greater knowledge base both in religious studies and medicine. While topics such as astrology and gem therapy are so very difficult to present in the mainstream, these aspects of spiritual healing are simply part of the system; one cannot pick and choose parts when studying a whole. Therefore, even with the shortfalls of Frawley’s work, the underlying integral philosophy and suggestions for a new paradigm of medicine are paramount to progress in the field of spirituality, medicine, and health. In all, it is a very effective introduction to a subject that warrants more scholarly eyes.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Fred M. Frohock |
Abstract | The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medicine. The first is that all versions of unconventional medicine depend for their identity on the existence of conventional medicine. The second is that the distinctions between alternative and conventional medicine are variables of time, place, and the attitudes of health care practitioners. Third, CAM today in the West occupies no sharp and distinctive category. There are instead continuums of various slopes and lengths on which types of complementary and alternative medicine are arrayed. Fourth, the turn to CAM may represent a chronic (and, to some, welcome) inclination of the human intellect to delimit the energies of material inquiries with metaphysical baselines and options. |
Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Volume | 583 |
Pages | 214-232 |
Date | Sep., 2002 |
ISSN | 00027162 |
Short Title | Moving Lines and Variable Criteria |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049698 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:19:58 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medicine. The first is that all versions of unconventional medicine depend for their identity on the existence of conventional medicine. The second is that the distinctions between alternative and conventional medicine are variables of time, place, and the attitudes of health care practitioners. Third, CAM today in the West occupies no sharp and distinctive category. There are instead continuums of various slopes and lengths on which types of complementary and alternative medicine are arrayed. Fourth, the turn to CAM may represent a chronic (and, to some, welcome) inclination of the human intellect to delimit the energies of material inquiries with metaphysical baselines and options.
Type | Book |
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Author | Robert Fuller |
Place | Philadelphia |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Date | 1982 |
ISBN | 9780812278477 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Robert C Fuller |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 1989 |
ISBN | 0195057759 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R733 .F85 1989 |
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The late 1980s have seen an explosion of interest in an unconventional, and sometimes bizarre, set of practices and beliefs commonly called the New Age movement. Led by such visible figures as Shirley MacLaine, thousands of Americans have turned to a wide range of self-help methods and philosophies geared toward spiritual fulfillment and, particularly, healing of the body, including acupuncture, channeling, and crystals. What all these methods seem to have in common is an attempt to eschew conventional medical treatments, to move beyond the mysteries of the body to those of the psyche and soul. But as Robert C. Fuller demonstrates in this fascinating and surprising new book, such “alternative” forms of healing are nothing new in American culture. Going back to the early nineteenth century, Fuller asserts, Americans have relied on a bewildering assortment of unorthodox medical systems that represent a characteristically American strain of religious thought--a belief that spiritual, physical, and even economic well-being flow from an individual’s rapport with the cosmos. Drawing on a wealth of historical, psychological, and sociological information, Fuller’s story begins with such early health reforms as homeopathy, hydropathy, and Thomsonianism (which held that all disease was caused by cold and could be cured by heat). Though fairly conventional in outlook, they signaled the appearance of metaphysical elements that were destined to erupt in later movements. Fuller then looks at mesmerism and Swedenborgianism, which sprang up in the 1830s and 40s. Both of these movements were extremely popular in America, promising a triumph of piety and spirituality over the weaknesses of the body and mind, and changing the way thousands of Americans looked at modern medicine. Fuller traces this increasing metaphysical dimension, first in the early practices of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine, and then throughout the twentieth century in such varied and colorful systems as crystal healing, rolfing, spirit channeling, holistic health, and even Alcoholics Anonymous. Fuller argues that these healing movements have played an important role in American religious life, offering people a more vivid experience of a “sacred reality” than do most organized religions. His fascinating and sympathetic look at this thriving, and peculiarly American, mode of religion will interest a wide range of readers interested in American religious, cultural, and medical history.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Robert C. Fuller |
Publication | The Journal of Religion |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 50-65 |
Date | Jan., 1987 |
ISSN | 00224189 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1203316 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:28:11 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 The University of Chicago Press |
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Type | Book |
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Author | James Funderburk |
Place | Glenview, Ill. |
Publisher | Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science & Philosophy of USA |
Date | 1977 |
ISBN | 089389026X |
Short Title | Science Studies Yoga |
Library Catalog | lms01.harvard.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RC1220.Y64 F86 1977 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Deborah Dysart Gale |
Author | W M Gorman-Yao |
Publication | Journal of Cultural Diversity |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 124-127 |
Date | 2003 |
Journal Abbr | J Cult Divers |
ISSN | 1071-5568 |
Short Title | Falungong |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15000055 |
Accessed | Friday, November 13, 2009 12:46:51 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 15000055 |
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Transcultural nursing literature provides a rich picture of prominent Chinese health-related beliefs derived from the traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. However, these traditional beliefs are being challenged and modified in response to public discussion of a new spiritual movement, Falungong (also spelled Falun Gong). This movement calling for personal and social renewal has arisen in reaction to significant political and economic upheavals in Chinese society. This paper presents an overview of the Falungong movement and the health beliefs it advances. Implications for U.S. nursing practice are discussed.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | R L Garrison |
Abstract | Current medical authors frequently use the term "revolution," yet American medicine is resisting change rather than embracing it. The last completed American medical revolutionary movement was the specialist-technologist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This paper describes a five-generational model of revolution. First-generation persons foment revolution; second-generation persons shape it into workable form and precipitate conflict; third-generation persons join the fight only when it appears to be all but won; fourth-generation persons enjoy the fruits of revolution; and fifth-generation persons, having risen to domination in the mature system, resist all attempts at reform by the next round of revolutionaries. In political revolutions, severe reactionary activity by the ruling party is often an indicator of an imminent overthrow by revolution. In scientific revolutions, the opposition of an established (specialist-technologist) paradigm to an emerging alternative (generalist) paradigm increases in intensity as the old order declines in strength; the opposition becomes most fierce just before the collapse of the old order. American specialist-technologist medicine, declining into its senescent fifth generation, will resist all but incremental change whenever possible, and accept major change only by force. |
Publication | The Journal of Family Practice |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 281-287 |
Date | Mar 1995 |
Journal Abbr | J Fam Pract |
ISSN | 0094-3509 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/7876786 |
Accessed | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:03:04 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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Current medical authors frequently use the term “revolution,” yet American medicine is resisting change rather than embracing it. The last completed American medical revolutionary movement was the specialist-technologist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This paper describes a five-generational model of revolution. First-generation persons foment revolution; second-generation persons shape it into workable form and precipitate conflict; third-generation persons join the fight only when it appears to be all but won; fourth-generation persons enjoy the fruits of revolution; and fifth-generation persons, having risen to domination in the mature system, resist all attempts at reform by the next round of revolutionaries. In political revolutions, severe reactionary activity by the ruling party is often an indicator of an imminent overthrow by revolution. In scientific revolutions, the opposition of an established (specialist-technologist) paradigm to an emerging alternative (generalist) paradigm increases in intensity as the old order declines in strength; the opposition becomes most fierce just before the collapse of the old order. American specialist-technologist medicine, declining into its senescent fifth generation, will resist all but incremental change whenever possible, and accept major change only by force.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Titus George |
Abstract | Human suffering speaks differently to different lived contexts. In this paper, I have taken a metaphoric representation of suffering, Ishvara, from the lived context of a Hindu immigrant woman to show that suffering is experienced and expressed within one's lived context. Further, a dominant narrative from her world is presented to show that the same lived context can be a resource for spiritual care that could reconstruct her world that has fallen apart with a suffering experience. Having argued that suffering is experienced and expressed within one's lived context, and that lived context could be a resource, in this paper I present that spiritual care is an intervention into the predicaments of human suffering and its mandate is to facilitate certain direction and a meaningful order through which experiences and expectations are rejoined. Finally, I observe that spiritual care is an engagement between the lived context where suffering is experienced and the spiritual experience and orientation of the caregiver. |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 581-590 |
Date | Dec 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-009-9285-3 |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
Short Title | My Ishvara is dead |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19787453 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Norman Gevitz |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 9780801837104 |
Short Title | Other healers |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Nine scholars examine the history of social dynamics of alternative health practices in this country. Editor Gevitz provides a historical and theoretical overview, followed by essays on botanical, health reform, and water-cure movements, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, Christian Science, divine healing, and contemporary folk medicine. Admirably nonpolemical, this book will be of interest to scholars in medical history, sociology, and anthropology; American and women’s studies (the water cure having feminist connections); and folklore.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Sarah S Gilbert |
Abstract | Few studies have attempted to quantify Islam's contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention. Senegal has involved Muslim leaders in its prevention campaign for over a decade. Senegal also has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines how Islam influences AIDS prevention by testing whether Senegalese participants' religiosity scores explain their risky decisions associated with sex, condom use, and drug use. Participants with higher religiosity scores were more likely to abstain from sex. However, participants high in religiosity were not more likely to report that they did not use condoms when sexually active. |
Publication | AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 399-407 |
Date | Oct 2008 |
Journal Abbr | AIDS Educ Prev |
DOI | 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.5.399 |
ISSN | 1943-2755 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18956981 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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Few studies have attempted to quantify Islam’s contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention. Senegal has involved Muslim leaders in its prevention campaign for over a decade. Senegal also has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines how Islam influences AIDS prevention by testing whether Senegalese participants’ religiosity scores explain their risky decisions associated with sex, condom use, and drug use. Participants with higher religiosity scores were more likely to abstain from sex. However, participants high in religiosity were not more likely to report that they did not use condoms when sexually active.
Type | Book |
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Author | Charles M Good |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Guilford Press |
Date | 1987 |
ISBN | 0898627796 |
Short Title | Ethnomedical Systems in Africa |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR350 .G6 1987 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | M A Gravitz |
Abstract | Following an unsuccessful attempt by Mesmer to bring animal magnetism to the United States in 1784 through the Marquis de Lafayette, there was a period of little activity there for several decades. Then, concurrent with its revival in Europe and led by a few American practitioners who had been trained in France, several early societies of American magnetizers were founded beginning about 1815. These were initially organized in New York City and subsequently in New Orleans, Boston, Clinton, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Philadelphia. They played an important role in the development of hypnosis in America. |
Publication | The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 41-48 |
Date | Jul 1994 |
Journal Abbr | Am J Clin Hypn |
ISSN | 0002-9157 |
Short Title | Early American mesmeric societies |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/8085545 |
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Following an unsuccessful attempt by Mesmer to bring animal magnetism to the United States in 1784 through the Marquis de Lafayette, there was a period of little activity there for several decades. Then, concurrent with its revival in Europe and led by a few American practitioners who had been trained in France, several early societies of American magnetizers were founded beginning about 1815. These were initially organized in New York City and subsequently in New Orleans, Boston, Clinton, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Philadelphia. They played an important role in the development of hypnosis in America.
Type | Book |
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Author | Sidney M Greenfield |
Place | Walnut Creek, CA |
Publisher | Left Coast Press |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 9781598743678 |
Short Title | Spirits with Scalpels |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GN564.B6 G74 2008 |
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“The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move….” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. This engrossing and provocative book will put students and scholars alike on the edge of their seats.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | S Grof |
Abstract | Holotropic states (a large special subgroup of nonordinary states of consciousness) have been the focus of many fields of modern research, such as experiential psychotherapy, clinical and laboratory work with psychedelic substances, field anthropology, thanatology, and therapy with individuals undergoing psychospiritual crises ("spiritual emergencies"). This research has generated a plethora of extraordinary observations that have undermined some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Some of these new findings seriously challenge the most basic philosophical tenets of Western science concerning the relationship between matter, life, and consciousness. This article summarizes the most important major revisions that would have to be made in our understanding of consciousness and of the human psyche in health and disease to accommodate these conceptual challenges. These areas of changes include: a new understanding and cartography of the human psyche; the nature and architecture of emotional and psychosomatic disorders; therapeutic mechanisms and the process of healing; the strategy of psychotherapy and self-exploration; the role of spirituality in human life; and the nature of reality. |
Publication | Journal of Psychoactive Drugs |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 343-357 |
Date | 1998 Oct-Dec |
Journal Abbr | J Psychoactive Drugs |
ISSN | 0279-1072 |
Short Title | Human nature and the nature of reality |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9924840 |
Accessed | Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:47:21 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 9924840 |
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Holotropic states (a large special subgroup of nonordinary states of consciousness) have been the focus of many fields of modern research, such as experiential psychotherapy, clinical and laboratory work with psychedelic substances, field anthropology, thanatology, and therapy with individuals undergoing psychospiritual crises (“spiritual emergencies”). This research has generated a plethora of extraordinary observations that have undermined some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Some of these new findings seriously challenge the most basic philosophical tenets of Western science concerning the relationship between matter, life, and consciousness. This article summarizes the most important major revisions that would have to be made in our understanding of consciousness and of the human psyche in health and disease to accommodate these conceptual challenges. These areas of changes include: a new understanding and cartography of the human psyche; the nature and architecture of emotional and psychosomatic disorders; therapeutic mechanisms and the process of healing; the strategy of psychotherapy and self-exploration; the role of spirituality in human life; and the nature of reality.
Type | Book |
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Author | W. D Hammond-Tooke |
Series | Paper books |
Place | Johannesburg |
Publisher | Ad. Donker |
Date | 1989 |
ISBN | 0868521108 |
Short Title | Rituals and Medicines |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR350 .H28 1989 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Wayland Debs Hand |
Place | Berkeley |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Date | 1980 |
ISBN | 0520041291 |
Short Title | Magical Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR880 .H35 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Stanley S Harakas |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 082450934X |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX323 .H35 1990 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Curtis W Hart |
Author | M Div |
Abstract | The contemporary dialogue between religion and psychiatry has its roots in what is called the clinical pastoral movement. The early leaders of the clinical pastoral movement (Anton Boisen, Elwood Worcester, Helen Flanders Dunbar, and Richard Cabot) were individuals of talent, even genius, whose lives and work intersected one another in the early decades of the twentieth century. Their legacy endures in the persons they inspired and continue to inspire and in the professional organizations and academic programs that profit from their pioneering work. To understand them and the era of their greatest productivity is to understand some of what psychiatry and religion have to say to each other. Appreciating their legacy requires attention to the context of historical movements and forces current in America at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century that shaped religious, psychiatric, and cultural discourse. This essay attempts to provide an introduction to this rich and fascinating material. This material was first presented as a Grand Rounds lecture at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester in the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College. |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 536-546 |
Date | Dec 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-010-9347-6 |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
Short Title | Present at the creation |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20300962 |
Accessed | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:03:10 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20300962 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Gabrielle Hatfield |
Place | Santa Barbara, Calif |
Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
Date | 2004 |
ISBN | 1576078744 |
Short Title | Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R733 .H376 2004 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
Place | Notre Dame Ind. |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Press |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 9780268017217 |
Short Title | Suffering presence |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
Place | Grand Rapids Mich. |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 9780802804969 |
Short Title | Naming the silences |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look--in vain--for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Gary J Hausman |
Publication | Social History of Medicine: The Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine / SSHM |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 303-322 |
Date | Aug 2002 |
Journal Abbr | Soc Hist Med |
ISSN | 0951-631X |
Short Title | Making medicine indigenous |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12638553 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:36:57 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12638553 |
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Historical studies of homeopathy in Europe and the USA have focused on practitioners’ attempts to emphasize ‘modern’ and ‘scientific’ approaches. Studies of homeopathy in India have focused on a process of Indianization. Arguing against such unilineal trajectories, this paper situates homeopathy in South India within the context of shifting relations between ‘scientific’ and ‘indigenous’ systems of medicine. Three time periods are considered. From 1924 through 1934, homeopathy was singled out by Government of Madras officials as ‘scientific’, as contrasted with the ‘indigenous’ Ayurvedic, Siddha, and Unani systems of medicine. From 1947 through 1960, both ‘indigenous’ and ‘scientific’ interpretations of homeopathy were put forward by different factions. An honorary director of homeopathy proposed the Indianization of homeopathy, and its reconciliation with Ayurveda; this view conflicted with the Madras government’s policy of expanding the ‘scientific’ medical curriculum of the Government College of Indigenous Medicine. It was not until the early 1970s that homeopathy was officially recognized in Tamilnadu State. By then, both homeopathy and Ayurveda had become conceptualized as non-Tamil, in contrast with promotion of the Tamil Siddha system of ‘indigenous’ medicine. Thus, constructs of ‘indigenous’ and ‘scientific’ systems of medicine are quite malleable with respect to homeopathy in South India.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Leila Hessini |
Abstract | This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to support or hinder women's access to safe abortion services in the 21 predominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where one in ten pregnancies ends in abortion. Reform efforts, including progressive interpretations of Islam, have resulted in laws allowing for early abortion on request in two countries; six others permit abortion on health grounds and three more also allow abortion in cases of rape or fetal impairment. However, medical and social factors limit access to safe abortion services in all but Turkey and Tunisia. To address this situation, efforts are increasing in a few countries to introduce post-abortion care, document the magnitude of unsafe abortion and understand women's experience of unplanned pregnancy. Religious fatāwa have been issued allowing abortions in certain circumstances. An understanding of variations in Muslim beliefs and practices, and the interplay between politics, religion, history and reproductive rights is key to understanding abortion in different Muslim societies. More needs to be done to build on efforts to increase women's rights, engage community leaders, support progressive religious leaders and government officials and promote advocacy among health professionals. |
Publication | Reproductive Health Matters |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 29 |
Pages | 75-84 |
Date | May 2007 |
Journal Abbr | Reprod Health Matters |
DOI | 10.1016/S0968-8080(06)29279-6 |
ISSN | 0968-8080 |
Short Title | Abortion and Islam |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17512379 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:32:10 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 17512379 |
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This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to support or hinder women’s access to safe abortion services in the 21 predominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where one in ten pregnancies ends in abortion. Reform efforts, including progressive interpretations of Islam, have resulted in laws allowing for early abortion on request in two countries; six others permit abortion on health grounds and three more also allow abortion in cases of rape or fetal impairment. However, medical and social factors limit access to safe abortion services in all but Turkey and Tunisia. To address this situation, efforts are increasing in a few countries to introduce post-abortion care, document the magnitude of unsafe abortion and understand women’s experience of unplanned pregnancy. Religious fatawa have been issued allowing abortions in certain circumstances. An understanding of variations in Muslim beliefs and practices, and the interplay between politics, religion, history and reproductive rights is key to understanding abortion in different Muslim societies. More needs to be done to build on efforts to increase women’s rights, engage community leaders, support progressive religious leaders and government officials and promote advocacy among health professionals.
Type | Book |
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Author | Birgit Heyn |
Edition | 1st Quality Paperback Ed |
Publisher | Healing Arts Press |
Date | 1990-04-01 |
ISBN | 0892813334 |
Short Title | Ayurveda |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | S. M Hillier |
Author | J. A Jewell |
Place | London |
Publisher | Routledge & Kegan Paul |
Date | 1983 |
ISBN | 0710094256 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R601 .H5 1983 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People’s Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match political objectives in health care to resources available.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | T. J. Hinrichs |
Publication | Osiris |
Volume | 13 |
Pages | 287-325 |
Date | 1998 |
Series | 2nd Series |
ISSN | 03697827 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/301886 |
Accessed | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:08:33 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia / Full publication date: 1998 / Copyright © 1998 The University of Chicago Press |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Constance Holden |
Publication | Science |
Volume | 187 |
Issue | 4182 |
Pages | 1176-1180 |
Date | Mar. 28, 1975 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 00368075 |
Short Title | Maharishi International University |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1739479 |
Accessed | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:55:41 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: notice_news / Full publication date: Mar. 28, 1975 / Copyright © 1975 American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | E. Brooks Holifield |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 0824507924 |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX8349.H4 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Alex Holland |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Date | 2000 |
ISBN | 9781556433269 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
The physiological systems through which traditional Chinese medicine works are discussed, as well as acupuncture, moxibustion, Chinese herbal medicine, and how to select a practitioner.
Type | Book |
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Author | Åke Hultkrantz |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0824511883 |
Short Title | Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | E98.R3 H825 1992 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
In this pioneering work, one of the world’s leading experts on Native American traditions offers a detailed survey of Native American practices and beliefs regarding health, medicine, and religion. In contrast to the sharp Euro-American division between medicine and religion, Native American medical beliefs and practices can only be assessed in their relation to their religious ideas.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Fatima Husain |
Abstract | The Islamic faith is regarded by its followers, Muslims, as a complete way of life. A multitude of nationalities practise Islam and also various sects, and as a result there are various interpretations of Qur'anic guidance relating to almost every matter. Only a fully qualified jurist of the highest rank can issue edicts on problems that are not already clearly addressed in the Qur'an. This applies to contemporary issues and any Muslim is at liberty to debate and dialogue with the religious leader to obtain a ruling on a specific question. Marriage is described as half the faith in Islam and to have children is seen as a great blessing. There is no religious objection to an infertile married couple pursuing any form of infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization, surgical sperm retrieval and micro-assisted conception methods. However, there must be strict control to ensure that the gametes belong to the husband and wife. This relationship is described as 'halal' (permitted), whereas any union of gametes outside a marital bond, whether by adultery or in the laboratory, is 'haraam' (forbidden). Therefore, donor sperm pregnancies are strictly forbidden in all schools of Islamic law. The advent of ovum donation and surrogacy has led some Islamic scholars to allow this procedure between co-wives thereby avoiding the 'haraam' relationship between sperm and egg, but there is still debate on the definition of the mother. Similarly, treating any other situation outside a marriage relationship, for example fertilization of an ovum from cryopreserved sperm after divorce of the couple or death of the husband would be 'haraam' and strictly forbidden. The Qur'anic guidance is quite clear that the couple can pursue all permitted treatments but may need to accept that they may not achieve a pregnancy. Adoption is encouraged in Islam with the specific rule that the child must be able to identify its biological father by keeping his name. It must be emphasized that Muslims will vary on their degree of adherence to the faith and the practitioner should present all the options to the couple without assuming which treatments they will or will not accept. |
Publication | Human Fertility (Cambridge, England) |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 124-128 |
Date | 2000 |
Journal Abbr | Hum Fertil (Camb) |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11844368 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:50:22 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 11844368 |
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The Islamic faith is regarded by its followers, Muslims, as a complete way of life. A multitude of nationalities practice Islam and also various sects, and as a result there are various interpretations of Qur’anic guidance relating to almost every matter. Only a fully qualified jurist of the highest rank can issue edicts on problems that are not already clearly addressed in the Qur’an. This applies to contemporary issues and any Muslim is at liberty to debate and dialogue with the religious leader to obtain a ruling on a specific question. Marriage is described as half the faith in Islam and to have children is seen as a great blessing. There is no religious objection to an infertile married couple pursuing any form of infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization, surgical sperm retrieval and micro-assisted conception methods. However, there must be strict control to ensure that the gametes belong to the husband and wife. This relationship is described as ‘halal’ (permitted), whereas any union of gametes outside a marital bond, whether by adultery or in the laboratory, is ‘haraam’ (forbidden). Therefore, donor sperm pregnancies are strictly forbidden in all schools of Islamic law. The advent of ovum donation and surrogacy has led some Islamic scholars to allow this procedure between co-wives thereby avoiding the ‘haraam’ relationship between sperm and egg, but there is still debate on the definition of the mother. Similarly, treating any other situation outside a marriage relationship, for example fertilization of an ovum from cryopreserved sperm after divorce of the couple or death of the husband would be ‘haraam’ and strictly forbidden. The Qur’anic guidance is quite clear that the couple can pursue all permitted treatments but may need to accept that they may not achieve a pregnancy. Adoption is encouraged in Islam with the specific rule that the child must be able to identify its biological father by keeping his name. It must be emphasized that Muslims will vary on their degree of adherence to the faith and the practitioner should present all the options to the couple without assuming which treatments they will or will not accept.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Janis Faye Hutchinson |
Author | Richard Sharp |
Publication | Genomic Medicine |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 3-4 |
Pages | 107-111 |
Date | Dec 2008 |
Journal Abbr | Genomic Med |
DOI | 10.1007/s11568-009-9079-4 |
ISSN | 1871-7934 |
Short Title | Karma, reincarnation, and medicine |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19479363 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 1:01:10 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19479363 |
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Prior to the completion of the Human Genome Project, bioethicists and other academics debated the impact of this new genetic information on medicine, health care, group identification, and peoples’ lives. A major issue is the potential for unintended and intended adverse consequences to groups and individuals. When conducting research in, for instance, American Indian and Alaskan native (AI/AN) populations, political, cultural, religious and historical issues must be considered. Among African Americans, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is a reminder of racism and discrimination in this country. The goal of the current study is to understand reasons for participating, or not, in genetic research such as the HapMap project and other genetic/medical research from the perspective of the Indian American community in Houston, Texas. In this article, we report on a topic central to this discussion among Indian Americans: karma and reincarnation. Both concepts are important beliefs when considering the body and what should happen to it. Karma and reincarnation are also important considerations in participation in medical and genetic research because, according to karma, what is done to the body can affect future existences and the health of future descendants. Such views of genetic and medical research are culturally mediated. Spiritual beliefs about the body, tissue, and fluids and what happens to them when separated from the body can influence ideas about the utility and acceptability of genetic research and thereby affect the recruitment process. Within this community it is understood that genetic and environmental factors contribute to complex diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer; and acknowledgment of the significance of environmental stressors in the production of disease. A commitment to service, i.e. “betterment of humanity,” karmic beliefs, and targeting environmental stressors could be prominent avenues for public health campaigns in this population. This study suggests that minority status does not automatically indicate unwillingness to participate in genetic or medical research. Indian Americans were not skeptical about the potential benefits of biomedical research in comparison to other ethnic minority communities in the United States.
Type | Book |
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Author | Muhammad ibn Ab¯i Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawz¯iyah |
Place | Cambridge |
Publisher | Islamic Texts Society |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 0946621195 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BP166.72 |
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This book is a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as enshrined in the Qur’an and the hadith, or sayings of the Prophet. Written in the fourteenth century by the renowned theologian Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751AH/1350AD) as part of his work Zad al-Ma’ad, this book is a mine of information on the customs and sayings of the Prophet, as well as on herbal and medical practices current at the time of the author. In bringing together these two aspects, Ibn Qayyim has produced a concise summary of how the Prophet’s guidance and teaching can be followed, as well as how health, sickness and cures were viewed by Muslims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The original Arabic text offers an authoritative compendium of Islamic medicine and still enjoys much popularity in the Muslim world. This English translation is a more complete presentation than has previously been available and includes verification of all hadith references. Medicine of the Prophet will appeal not only to those interested in alternative systems of health and medicine, but also to people wishing to acquaint themselves with, or increase their knowledge of, hadith and the religion and culture of Islam.
Type | Book |
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Author | Ali ibn Ridwan |
Author | Adil Sulayman Jamal |
Translator | Michael W Dols |
Place | Berkeley |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Date | 1984 |
ISBN | 0520048369 |
Short Title | Medieval Islamic Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R128.3 .A4513 1984 |
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Modified | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:50:47 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Pascal James Imperato |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | York Press |
Date | 1977 |
ISBN | 0912752084 |
Short Title | African Folk Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | DT551.42 .I46 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 4:51:22 PM |
A study about culture and medicine in Mali, West Africa.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lee Irwin |
Publication | American Indian Quarterly |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 237-257 |
Date | Spring, 1992 |
ISSN | 0095182X |
Short Title | Cherokee Healing |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1185431 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:06:57 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Spring, 1992 / Copyright © 1992 University of Nebraska Press |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Craig R. Janes |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 6-39 |
Date | Mar., 1995 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/648555 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:59:48 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Mar., 1995 / Copyright © 1995 American Anthropological Association |
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This article presents a cultural and historical analysis of 20th-century Tibetan medicine. In its expansion into the state bureaucracy, Tibetan medicine has acceded to institutional modernity through transformations in theory, practice, and methods for training physicians. Despite Chinese rule in Tibet, however, Tibetan medicine has not yielded completely to state interests. With the collapsing of the traditionally pluralistic Tibetan health system into the professional sector of Tibetan medicine, contemporary Tibetan medicine has become to the laity a font of ethnic revitalization and resistance to the modernization policies of the Chinese state. These processes are particularly evident in the elaboration of disorders of rlung, a class of sicknesses that, collectively, have come to symbolize the suffering inherent in rapid social, economic, and political change.
Type | Book |
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Author | Ayodele Samuel Jegede |
Place | Ibadan, Nigeria |
Publisher | Stirling-Horden |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 9782063525 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA418.3.N6 J445 1998 |
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Modified | Saturday, November 26, 2011 9:05:07 PM |
A book about African traditional perceptions of health, disease, illness, and sickness. Based on research study in Nigeria, the author surveys sociocultural factors influencing theraeutic choice, the role of education, information and communication in health care delivery. The author also discusses new ideas about health care programs and services.
Type | Book |
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Author | Huanguang Jia |
Date | 1997 |
Short Title | Chinese medicine in post-Mao China |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Susan L. Johnston |
Abstract | Native American traditional medicine is alive and vibrant in many North American societies, although not all. These traditions coexist with other forms of healing, and the particular patterns of existence, interaction, and meaning vary among groups. The literature examining these issues is likewise diverse. This article explores, through a selective review of the recent literature, how social and behavioral scientists, among others, are focusing their investigations of traditional and alternative medicine in Native American communities of the United States and Canada today. Issues include how native practices have persisted and changed, how they are being used (e. g., in framing cultural identity), and how they interact with other systems, especially biomedicine and faith healing. |
Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Volume | 583 |
Pages | 195-213 |
Date | Sep., 2002 |
ISSN | 00027162 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049697 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:59:24 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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Native American traditional medicine is alive and vibrant in many North American societies, although not all. These traditions coexist with other forms of healing, and the particular patterns of existence, interaction, and meaning vary among groups. The literature examining these issues is likewise diverse. This article explores, through a selective review of the recent literature, how social and behavioral scientists, among others, are focusing their investigations of traditional and alternative medicine in Native American communities of the United States and Canada today. Issues include how native practices have persisted and changed, how they are being used (e.g, in framing cultural identity), and how they interact with other systems, especially biomedicine and faith healing.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Rex L. Jones |
Publication | History of Religions |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 330-347 |
Date | May, 1968 |
ISSN | 00182710 |
Short Title | Shamanism in South Asia |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1061796 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:50:35 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: May, 1968 / Copyright © 1968 The University of Chicago Press |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Donald Joralemon |
Author | Douglas Sharon |
Place | Salt Lake City |
Publisher | University of Utah Press |
Date | 1993 |
ISBN | 087480423X |
Short Title | Sorcery and Shamanism |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR133.P4 J67 1993 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | K. S. Joshi |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 53-64 |
Date | Jan., 1965 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1397408 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:05:51 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1965 / Copyright © 1965 University of Hawai'i Press |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Rajani R Joshi |
Publication | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 879-889 |
Date | Oct 2004 |
Journal Abbr | J Altern Complement Med |
DOI | 10.1089/acm.2004.10.879 |
ISSN | 1075-5535 |
Short Title | A biostatistical approach to ayurveda |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/15650478 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:33:59 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 15650478 |
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Objective: To compute quantitative estimates of the tridosha--the qualitative characterization that constitutes the core of diagnosis and treatment in Ayurveda--to provide a basis for biostatistical analysis of this ancient Indian science, which is a promising field of alternative medicine. SUBJECTS: The data sources were 280 persons from among the residents and visitors/training students at the Brahmvarchas Research Centre and Shantikuj, Hardwar, India. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY: A quantitative measure of the tridosha level (for vata, pitta, and kapha) is obtained by applying an algorithmic heuristic approach to the exhaustive list of qualitative features/factors that are commonly used by Ayurvedic doctors. A knowledge-based concept of worth coefficients and fuzzy multiattribute decision functions are used here for regression modeling. VALIDATION AND APPLICATIONS: Statistical validation on a large sample shows the accuracy of this study’s estimates with statistical confidence level above 90%. The estimates are also suited for diagnostic and prognostic applications and systematic drug-response analysis of Ayurvedic (herbal and rasayanam) medicines. An application with regard to the former is elucidated, extensions of which might also be of use in investigating the role of nadis in Ayurvedic healing vis-a-vis acupuncture and acupressure techniques. The importance and scope of this novel approach are discussed. Conclusions: This pioneering study shows that the concept of tridosha has a sound empirical basis that could be used for the scientific establishment of Ayurveda in a new light.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Sergei Kan |
Abstract | Shamanism, a key element of the precontact Tlingit culture, was seen by Christian missionaries as one of the worst manifestations of paganism. A relentless campaign waged against the shamans by the missionaries, with the help of military and civil authorities, succeeded: by the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Tlingit had converted to Christianity, and by the 1930s most of the shamans had disappeared. In their effort to reconcile Christianity and the "traditional culture," modern-day Tlingit elders construct various interpretations of shamanism. The article examines these accounts as indigenous history and as ideological statements that challenge the notion of the inferiority of the aboriginal Tlingit religion to Christianity. |
Publication | Ethnohistory |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 363-387 |
Date | Autumn, 1991 |
ISSN | 00141801 |
Short Title | Shamanism and Christianity |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/482478 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:52:47 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Autumn, 1991 / Copyright © 1991 The American Society for Ethnohistory |
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Shamanism, a key element of the precontact Tlingit culture, was seen by Christian missionaries as one of the worst manifestations of paganism. A relentless campaign waged against the shamans by the missionaries, with the help of military and civil authorities, succeeded: by the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Tlingit had converted to Christianity, and by the 1930s most of the shamans had disappeared. In their effort to reconcile Christianity and the “traditional culture,” modern-day Tlingit elders construct various interpretations of shamanism. The article examines these accounts as indigenous history and as ideological statements that challenge the notion of the inferiority of the aboriginal Tlingit religion to Christianity.
Type | Book |
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Author | Thomas P Kasulis |
Author | Roger T Aimes |
Author | Wimal Dissanayake |
Series | SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion |
Place | Albany |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Date | 1993 |
ISBN | 079141079X |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | B105.B64 S45 1993 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | E. Barrie Kavasch |
Author | Karen Baar |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Bantam Books |
Date | 1999 |
ISBN | 0553378813 |
Short Title | American Indian Healing Arts |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ian Kesarcodi-Watson |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 77-90 |
Date | Jan., 1982 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1398753 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:10:33 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1982 / Copyright © 1982 University of Hawai'i Press |
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Type | Book |
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Author | David Kinsley |
Place | Upper Saddle River N.J. |
Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Date | 1996 |
ISBN | 9780132127714 |
Short Title | Health, healing, and religion |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Explicitly dealing with the religious aspects of healing and healers, this unique and intriguing book examines illness, healing, and religion in cross-cultural perspective by looking at how sickness is understood and treated in a wide variety of cultures. Centered around three principle themes, the text: A) illustrates how crucial it is to frame illness in a meaningful context in every culture and how this process is almost always bound up with religious, spiritual, and moral concerns; B) shows how many beliefs, strategies, and practices that characterize traditional cultures also appear in Christianity, putting healing in the Christian tradition in a broad, rational context, and; C) discusses the continuities between traditional, explicitly religious, and modern medical cultures — demonstrating that many features of modern scientific medicine are symbolic and ritualistic, and that many aspects and practices of modern medicine are similar to healing as seen in traditional, pre-scientific medical cultures.
Type | Book |
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Editor | James Kirkland |
Place | Durham |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0822312085 |
Short Title | Herbal and Magical Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR110.V8 H47 1992 |
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Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field.
Type | Book |
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Author | Pamela Klassen |
Place | Princeton |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 9780691087979 |
Short Title | Blessed events |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Livia Kohn |
Place | Magdalena, NM |
Publisher | Three Pines Press |
Date | 2006 |
ISBN | 1931483051 |
Short Title | Daoist Body Cultivation |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA776.5 .D327 2006 |
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Presented by a group of dedicated scholars and practitioners, this volume covers the key practices of medical healing, breathing techniques, diets and fasting, healing exercises, sexual practices, Qigong, and Taiji quan.
Type | Book |
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Author | Kwasi Konadu |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Date | 2007 |
ISBN | 9780415956208 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GN645 .K65 2007 |
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At the turn of the 20th century, African societies witnessed the suppression of indigenous healing specialists as missionary proselytization and colonial rule increased. Governments, medical practitioners and academics focused little attention or resources on the production of traditional medicine, despite its potential use for advancing health care delivery to millions of people in rural communities and providing the basis for a medicinal industry. Focusing on the case of Ghana, Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society investigates the ways in which healers and indigenous archives of cultural knowledge conceptualize and interpret medicine and healing. In order to unearth these prevailing concepts, Konadu utilizes in-depth interviews, plant samples, material culture, linguistics, and other sources. This groundbreaking study of indigenous knowledge has important implications for the study of medical and knowledge systems in Africa and the African Diaspora worldwide. By closely examining a range of multidisciplinary sources and utilizing fieldwork in the Takyiman district of central Ghana, the book contributes a new dimension to the study of health and healing systems in the African context and offers scholars, students, and general readers a vital reference.
Type | Book |
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Author | Shigehisa Kuriyama |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Zone Books |
Date | 1999 |
ISBN | 0942299884 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R723 .K87 1999 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | V Lad |
Publication | Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 57-63 |
Date | Jul 1995 |
Journal Abbr | Altern Ther Health Med |
ISSN | 1078-6791 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/9419799 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:45:22 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 9419799 |
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Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word derived from two roots: ayur, which means life, and veda, knowledge. Knowledge arranged systematically with logic becomes science. During the due course of time, Ayurveda became the science of life. It has its root in ancient vedic literature and encompasses our entire life, the body, mind, and spirit.
Type | Book |
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Author | Carol Laderman |
Contributor | Marina Roseman |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Date | 1996 |
ISBN | 0415911990 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR880 .P38 1996 |
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Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have both become involved in this important human undertaking. Exploring how the performance of healing transforms illness to health, initiate to ritual specialist, the authors show that performance does not merely refer to, but actually does something in the world. These essays on the performance of healing in societies ranging from rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis will touch readers’ senses as well as their intellects.
Type | Book |
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Author | Carol Laderman |
Series | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
Place | Berkeley, CA |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Date | 1991 |
ISBN | 0520069161 |
Short Title | Taming the Wind of Desire |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | DS595 .L33 1991 |
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Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits – the “Inner Winds” of Malay medical lore – in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.
Type | Book |
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Author | Thomas A Lambo |
Author | University of Ibadan |
Place | Ibadan |
Publisher | Ibadan University Press |
Date | 1963 |
Short Title | African Traditional Beliefs |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R651 .L35 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | E. Jean Matteson Langdon |
Editor | Gerhard Baer |
Edition | 1st ed |
Place | Albuquerque |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0826313450 |
Short Title | Portals of Power |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | F2230.1.R3 P65 1992 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Jean Langford |
Place | Durham |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Date | 2002 |
ISBN | 9780822329312 |
Short Title | Fluent bodies |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply for bodily disorders but for colonial and postcolonial ills.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Gerald James Larson |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 245-259 |
Date | Jul., 1987 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1398518 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:17:35 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 University of Hawai'i Press |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Charles M Leslie |
Author | Allan Young |
Contributor | American Anthropological Association |
Series | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
Place | Berkeley |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0520073177 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R581 .P38 1992 |
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The essays in this book ask how patients and practitioners know what they know-what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. Whether discussing Japanese anatomy texts, Islamic humoralism, Ayurvedic clinical practice, or a variety of other subjects, the authors offer an exciting range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jeff Levin |
Publication | Explore (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 101-112 |
Date | 2008 Mar-Apr |
Journal Abbr | Explore (NY) |
DOI | 10.1016/j.explore.2007.12.003 |
ISSN | 1550-8307 |
Short Title | Esoteric healing traditions |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18316053 |
Accessed | Friday, November 13, 2009 6:46:30 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18316053 |
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This paper presents, for the first time, a comprehensive scholarly examination of the history and principles of major traditions of esoteric healing. After a brief conceptual overview of esoteric religion and healing, summaries are provided of eight major esoteric traditions, including descriptions of beliefs and practices related to health, healing, and medicine. These include what are termed the kabbalistic tradition, the mystery school tradition, the gnostic tradition, the brotherhoods tradition, the Eastern mystical tradition, the Western mystical tradition, the shamanic tradition, and the new age tradition. Next, commonalities across these traditions are summarized with respect to beliefs and practices related to anatomy and physiology; nosology and etiology; pathophysiology; and therapeutic modalities. Finally, the implications of this survey of esoteric healing are discussed for clinicians, biomedical researchers, and medical educators.
Type | Book |
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Author | Thomas H Lewis |
Series | Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians |
Place | Lincoln |
Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 0803228902 |
Short Title | The Medicine Men |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | E99.O3 L49 1990 |
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For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok’a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During many months he studied with leading practitioners. He describes the healers—their techniques, personal histories and qualities, the problems addressed and results obtained—and examines past as well as present practices. The result is an engrossing account that may profoundly affect the way readers view the dynamics of therapy for mind and body.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Barbara W. Lex |
Publication | American Ethnologist |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 191-192 |
Date | Feb., 1984 |
ISSN | 00940496 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/644369 |
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Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1984 / Copyright © 1984 American Anthropological Association |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wei-Feng Li |
Author | Jian-Guo Jiang |
Author | Jian Chen |
Publication | Archives of Medical Research |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 246-251 |
Date | Feb 2008 |
Journal Abbr | Arch. Med. Res |
DOI | 10.1016/j.arcmed.2007.09.011 |
ISSN | 0188-4409 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18164973 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:16:24 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18164973 |
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As a typical naturally derived drug, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has developed for several thousands of years and accumulated abundant human pharmacological information and experience to form an integrated theory system. However, the problems of lower product quality, substandard codes and standards, and under-enhancement of fundamental research have restricted its further development and acceptance internationally. In this review, we explain the origin and developmental history of TCM, species involved in TCM, and their distributions in biotaxy. According to the status and problems, it is concluded that TCM modernization has become necessary and urgent. Modernization of TCM means the combination of TCM with modern technology, modern academic thoughts, and modern scientific culture, in which the most important point is to elucidate the active component of TCM, especially the material foundation of compound prescriptions and their pharmacodynamic mechanisms. Technology of analytical chemistry (HPLC, HPCE, HSCCC, etc.) and molecular biology (patch clamp, gene clamp, gene chip, fluorescent probe, DNA TUNEL assay, in situ hybridization, etc.) are useful tools to realize the modernization of TCM. Based on those studies and achievements and coupled with computer technology, all TCM products will achieve digitalization and normalization. TCM modernization will provide the world with useful reference information on traditional medicines.
Type | Book |
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Author | Frank J Lipp |
Author | American Council of Learned Societies |
Edition | 1st pbk. ed |
Place | Austin |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 0292747055 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | F1221.M67 |
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The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp has written a new preface for this edition, in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Roland Littlewood |
Publication | Anthropology Today |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 5-11 |
Date | Feb., 1989 |
ISSN | 0268540X |
Short Title | Science, Shamanism and Hermeneutics |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3032852 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:52:28 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1989 / Copyright © 1989 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Agnes Gertrud Loeffler |
Series | International library of Iranian studies |
Series Number | 6 |
Place | London |
Publisher | Tauris Academic Studies |
Date | 2007 |
ISBN | 9781850439424 |
Short Title | Allopathy Goes Native |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R632 .L64 2007 |
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Allopathy is often described as “western” medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. Allopathy Goes Native is an ethnographic investigation of how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by native practitioners in a non-western context. Based on research among allopathic doctors in Iran, Loeffler describes how the system of allopathic medicine has adapted to indigenous explanations of health and disease and to the economic, social and religio-political realities framing contemporary Iranian life and culture. This approach simultaneously problematizes the view of allopathic medicine as a “western” entity exerting a hegemonic influence over non-western cultures and provides a rare glimpse of the complexities of life in modern Iran denied most western scholars. It is an essential supplement to the current anthropological literature on Iran.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Giancarlo Lucchetti |
Author | Alessandra L Granero Lucchetti |
Author | Rodrigo M Bassi |
Author | Marlene Rossi Severino Nobre |
Abstract | Spiritism is the third most common religion in Brazil, and its therapies have been used by millions worldwide. These therapies are based on therapeutic resources including prayer, laying on of hands, fluidotherapy (magnetized water), charity/volunteering, spirit education/moral values, and disobsession (spirit release therapy). This paper presents a systematic review of the current literature on the relationship among health outcomes and 6 predictors: prayer, laying on of hands, magnetized/fluidic water, charity/volunteering, spirit education (virtuous life and positive affect), and spirit release therapy. All articles were analyzed according to inclusion/exclusion criteria, Newcastle-Ottawa and Jadad score. At present, there is moderate to strong evidence that volunteering and positive affect are linked to better health outcomes. Furthermore, laying on of hands, virtuous life, and praying for oneself also seem to be associated to positive findings. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies on magnetized water and spirit release therapy. In summary, science is indirectly demonstrating that some of these therapies can be associated to better health outcomes and that other therapies have been overlooked or poorly investigated. Further studies in this field could contribute to the disciplines of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by investigating the relationship between body, mind, and soul/spirit. |
Publication | Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: eCAM |
Volume | 2011 |
Pages | 835945 |
Date | 2011 |
Journal Abbr | Evid Based Complement Alternat Med |
DOI | 10.1155/2011/835945 |
ISSN | 1741-4288 |
Short Title | Complementary spiritist therapy |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21687790 |
Accessed | Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:11:45 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 21687790 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | William Lyon |
Place | Santa Barbara Calif |
Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
Date | 1996 |
ISBN | 9780874368529 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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This monumental volume explores, explains, and honors the healing practices of Native Americans throughout North America, from the southwestern United States to the Arctic Circle. Designed for ease of use with maps, a detailed subject index, an extensive bibliography, and cross references, this book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in Native American culture and heritage.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew P. Lyons |
Author | Harriet D. Lyons |
Publication | Journal of Ritual Studies |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 103-136 |
Date | Wint 1987 |
ISSN | 0890-1112 |
Short Title | Magical medicine on television |
Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
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Modified | Thursday, December 08, 2011 2:29:01 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Cluny Macpherson |
Author | La'arasa Macpherson |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Date | 2007-01 |
ISBN | 0824831330 |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
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This comprehensive study of Samoan medicine explores why traditional Samoan medical beliefs and treatments, in the hands of skilled practitioners, continue to flourish alongside Western medical practice.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Taiwo E Mafimisebi |
Author | Adegboyega E Oguntade |
Abstract | ABSTRACT: Agrarian rural dwellers in Nigeria produce about 95% of locally grown food commodities. The low accessibility to and affordability of orthodox medicine by rural dwellers and their need to keep healthy to be economically productive, have led to their dependence on traditional medicine. This paper posits an increasing acceptance of traditional medicine country-wide and advanced reasons for this trend. The fact that traditional medicine practitioners' concept of disease is on a wider plane vis-a-vis orthodox medicine practitioners' has culminated in some socio-cultural and magico-religious practices observed in preparation and use of plant medicines for farmers' health management. Possible scientific reasons were advanced for some of these practices to show the nexus between traditional medicine and orthodox medicine. The paper concludes that the psychological aspect of traditional medicine are reflected in its socio-cultural and magico-religious practices and suggests that government should fund research into traditional medicine to identify components of it that can be integrated into the national health system. |
Publication | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1 |
Date | Jan 20, 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed |
DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-6-1 |
ISSN | 1746-4269 |
Short Title | Preparation and use of plant medicines for farmers' health in Southwest Nigeria |
Accessed | Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:55:32 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20089149 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Agrarian rural dwellers in Nigeria produce about 95% of locally grown food commodities. The low accessibility to and affordability of orthodox medicine by rural dwellers and their need to keep healthy to be economically productive, have led to their dependence on traditional medicine. This paper posits an increasing acceptance of traditional medicine country-wide and advanced reasons for this trend. The fact that traditional medicine practitioners' concept of disease is on a wider plane vis-à-vis orthodox medicine practitioners' has culminated in some socio-cultural and magico-religious practices observed in preparation and use of plant medicines for farmers' health management. Possible scientific reasons were advanced for some of these practices to show the nexus between traditional medicine and orthodox medicine. The paper concludes that the psychological aspect of traditional medicine are reflected in its socio-cultural and magico-religious practices and suggests that government should fund research into traditional medicine to identify components of it that can be integrated into the national health system.
Type | Book |
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Author | M. Akin Makinde |
Series | Monographs in international studies |
Series Number | no.53 |
Place | Athens, Ohio |
Publisher | Ohio University Center for International Studies |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 0896801527 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | DT1 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | J. Mann |
Edition | Rev. ed |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 2000 |
ISBN | 0198507445 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RM300 .M1845 2000 |
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Pocket text presents how many of our modern medicines evolved from extracts that are poisonous, i.e. agents of murder, magic, and medicine. Topics include: arrow poisons, stimulants, antibacterial substances, and much more.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Shadi Sahami Martin |
Abstract | The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore whether the way mental health is conceptualized by older Iranian immigrants can influence their mental health-related practices. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 Iranians who had immigrated to the United States after the age of 50. The findings from this study revealed that the older Iranian immigrants were reluctant to seek mental health care services in the United States.This resistance was largely attributed to the cultural differences in mental health conceptualization (language, definitions, and terminology) and lack of trust in the effectiveness ofpsychotropic medications. The findings of this study have implications for health and social service professionals who provide services to older immigrants, refugees, and minority populations whose mental health conceptualization may not be consistent with the biomedical model. |
Publication | Health & Social Work |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 117-126 |
Date | May 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Health Soc Work |
ISSN | 0360-7283 |
Short Title | Illness of the mind or illness of the spirit? |
Accessed | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:11:20 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19425341 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:07:00 AM |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Richard T. Martin |
Publication | Economic Botany |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 422-438 |
Date | Oct. - Dec., 1970 |
ISSN | 00130001 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/4253177 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:11:20 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. - Dec., 1970 / Copyright © 1970 New York Botanical Garden Press |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Martin E Marty |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1983 |
ISBN | 0824506138 |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Lutheran Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX8074.H42 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Thandisizwe Redford Mavundla |
Author | Fulufelo Godfrey Netswera |
Author | Brian Bottoman |
Author | Ferenc Toth |
Abstract | This article presents research findings based on the meaning of indigenous circumcision to Xhosa men in South Africa. In South Africa, male circumcision is a rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. The country has experienced serious problems associated with the practice of this rite ranging from dehydration to death in the traditional "bush" circumcision schools. A qualitative, endogenous research DESIGN: "How do you experience having a son who is undergoing the circumcision rite?" The study revealed cultural circumcision as a "sacred religious practice" with five themes, namely (a) readiness of Xhosa families to engage in the circumcision ritual, (b) the act of circumcision and preparation for manhood, (c) the importance of symbolic purity during the circumcision ritual, (d) celebrating acquired manhood, and (5) aspects of manhood and the rejection of clinical care. Secondary to this are health promotion recommendations made for individuals involved in this ritual. |
Publication | Journal of Transcultural Nursing: Official Journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 395-404 |
Date | Oct 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Transcult Nurs |
DOI | 10.1177/1043659609340801 |
ISSN | 1043-6596 |
Short Title | Rationalization of indigenous male circumcision as a sacred religious custom |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19587214 |
Accessed | Monday, October 19, 2009 8:35:49 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19587214 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:21 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:21 AM |
This article presents research findings based on the meaning of indigenous circumcision to Xhosa men in South Africa. In South Africa, male circumcision is a rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. The country has experienced serious problems associated with the practice of this rite ranging from dehydration to death in the traditional "bush" circumcision schools. A qualitative, endogenous research DESIGN: "How do you experience having a son who is undergoing the circumcision rite?" The study revealed cultural circumcision as a "sacred religious practice" with five themes, namely (a) readiness of Xhosa families to engage in the circumcision ritual, (b) the act of circumcision and preparation for manhood, (c) the importance of symbolic purity during the circumcision ritual, (d) celebrating acquired manhood, and (5) aspects of manhood and the rejection of clinical care. Secondary to this are health promotion recommendations made for individuals involved in this ritual.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | James McClenon |
Abstract | It is likely that "Homo sapiens" practiced shamanic healing for many millennia. Studies within anthropology, folklore, hypnosis, medical history, psychoneuroimmunology, and religion support the argument that suggestions embedded within shamanic rituals have therapeutic effects. Shamanic/hypnotic suggestions may reduce pain, enhance healing, control blood loss, facilitate childbirth, and alleviate psychological disorders. Those more responsive to such suggestions are hypothesized to have a survival advantage over the less susceptible. As a consequence, shamanic rituals selected for genotypes associated with hypnotizability, a trait correlated with frequency of anomalous and religious experiences. With the evolution of psychophysiological structures associated with hypnotizability, modern forms of religious sentiment became possible. |
Publication | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 345-354 |
Date | Sep., 1997 |
ISSN | 00218294 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1387852 |
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Library Catalog | JSTOR |
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It is likely that “Homo sapiens” practiced shamanic healing for many millennia. Studies within anthropology, folklore, hypnosis, medical history, psychoneuroimmunology, and religion support the argument that suggestions embedded within shamanic rituals have therapeutic effects. Shamanic/hypnotic suggestions may reduce pain, enhance healing, control blood loss, facilitate childbirth, and alleviate psychological disorders. Those more responsive to such suggestions are hypothesized to have a survival advantage over the less susceptible. As a consequence, shamanic rituals selected for genotypes associated with hypnotizability, a trait correlated with frequency of anomalous and religious experiences. With the evolution of psychophysiological structures associated with hypnotizability, modern forms of religious sentiment became possible.
Type | Book |
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Author | Meredith McGuire |
Place | New Brunswick |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 9780813513126 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Editor | Brian McNeill |
Editor | Joseph Michael Cervantes |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 9780415954204 |
Short Title | Latina/O Healing Practices |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR105.3 .L38 2008 |
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This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous healers, as well as the application of traditional healing practices in contemporary counseling and therapeutic modalities with Latina/o people. The book offers a broad coverage of important topics, such as traditional healer’s views of mental/psychological health and well-being, the use of traditional healing techniques in contemporary psychotherapy, and herbal remedies in psychiatric practice. It also discusses common factors across traditional healing methods and contemporary psychotherapies, the importance of spirituality in counseling and everyday life, the application of indigenous healing practices with Latina/o undergraduates, indigenous techniques in working with perpetrators of domestic violence, and religious healing systems and biomedical models. The book is an important reference for anyone working within the general field of mental health practice and those seeking to understand culturally relevant practice with Latina/o populations.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jette Mebrouk |
Abstract | 'Values are principles and standards that have meaning and worth to an individual, family, group, or community' (Purnell & Paulanka 1998: p.3). Values are central to the care provided by nurses. The provision of nursing care within the context of value clarification, has been explored from various perspectives, however, as values vary within cultures, there is a limited range of studies reflecting on Saudi Arabian nurses' perspectives of nursing care. Through a Heideggerian phenomenological research design, six nurses were enrolled through purposive sampling. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews, which were audio tape-recorded, were chosen as the methods of data collection. A seven stage framework approach was applied to analyse and organise the research findings in three conceptual themes: values in context of Islam, the nurse-patient relationship, and identity's influence on being in the world of nursing. The findings of the research indicate that values in nursing and the perception of care are closely linked to the Islamic values of the informants. However, one of the most challenging aspects emerging from this study is related to these nurses' experiences related to the public's negative perception of nursing as a profession for Saudi Arabian women. |
Publication | Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession |
Volume | 28 |
Issue | 1-2 |
Pages | 149-161 |
Date | Apr 2008 |
Journal Abbr | Contemp Nurse |
ISSN | 1037-6178 |
Short Title | Perception of nursing care |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18844568 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18844568 |
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Values are principles and standards that have meaning and worth to an individual, family, group, or community’ (Purnell & Paulanka 1998: p.3). Values are central to the care provided by nurses. The provision of nursing care within the context of value clarification, has been explored from various perspectives, however, as values vary within cultures, there is a limited range of studies reflecting on Saudi Arabian nurses’ perspectives of nursing care. Through a Heideggerian phenomenological research design, six nurses were enrolled through purposive sampling. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews, which were audio tape-recorded, were chosen as the methods of data collection. A seven stage framework approach was applied to analyse and organise the research findings in three conceptual themes: values in context of Islam, the nurse-patient relationship, and identity’s influence on being in the world of nursing. The findings of the research indicate that values in nursing and the perception of care are closely linked to the Islamic values of the informants. However, one of the most challenging aspects emerging from this study is related to these nurses’ experiences related to the public’s negative perception of nursing as a profession for Saudi Arabian women.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lionel R Milgrom |
Abstract | Though in use for over 200 years, and still benefiting millions of people worldwide today, homeopathy is currently under continuous attacks for being "unscientific." The reasons for this can be understood in terms of what might be called a "New Fundamentalism," emanating particularly but not exclusively from within biomedicine, and supported in some sections of the media. Possible reasons for this are discussed. New Fundamentalism's hallmarks include the denial of evidence for the efficacy of any therapeutic modality that cannot be consistently "proven" using double-blind, randomized controlled trials. It excludes explanations of homeopathy's efficacy; ignores, excoriates, or considers current research data supporting those explanations incomprehensible, particularly from outside biomedicine: it is also not averse to using experimental bias, hearsay, and innuendo in order to discredit homeopathy. Thus, New Fundamentalism is itself unscientific. This may have consequences in the future for how practitioners, researchers, and patients of homeopathy/complementary and alternative medicine engage and negotiate with primary health care systems. |
Publication | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 589-594 |
Date | Jun 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Altern Complement Med |
DOI | 10.1089/acm.2007.0729 |
ISSN | 1557-7708 |
Short Title | Homeopathy and the new fundamentalism |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18564960 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18564960 |
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Though in use for over 200 years, and still benefiting millions of people worldwide today, homeopathy is currently under continuous attacks for being “unscientific.” The reasons for this can be understood in terms of what might be called a “New Fundamentalism,” emanating particularly but not exclusively from within biomedicine, and supported in some sections of the media. Possible reasons for this are discussed. New Fundamentalism’s hallmarks include the denial of evidence for the efficacy of any therapeutic modality that cannot be consistently “proven” using double-blind, randomized controlled trials. It excludes explanations of homeopathy’s efficacy; ignores, excoriates, or considers current research data supporting those explanations incomprehensible, particularly from outside biomedicine: it is also not averse to using experimental bias, hearsay, and innuendo in order to discredit homeopathy. Thus, New Fundamentalism is itself unscientific. This may have consequences in the future for how practitioners, researchers, and patients of homeopathy/complementary and alternative medicine engage and negotiate with primary health care systems.
Type | Book |
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Author | Norman N Miller |
Place | Hanover, N.H |
Publisher | American Universities Field Staff |
Date | 1980 |
Short Title | Traditional Medicine in East Africa |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | JA1.A1 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Rammurti S Mishra |
Edition | 1987 ed |
Place | New York, N.Y |
Publisher | Harmony Books |
Date | 1987 |
ISBN | 051756422X |
Short Title | Fundamentals of Yoga |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | B132.Y6 M5 1987 |
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Dr. Mishra brings a medical reasoning and a guru’s practice to the ancient science of yoga. Concentration and meditation exercises make this an invaluable introduction to yoga.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | L Mishra |
Author | B B Singh |
Author | S Dagenais |
Publication | Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 36-42 |
Date | Mar 2001 |
Journal Abbr | Altern Ther Health Med |
ISSN | 1078-6791 |
Short Title | Ayurveda |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11253415 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 11253415 |
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Ayurveda, the science of life, is a comprehensive medical system that has been the traditional system of healthcare in India for more than 5000 years. This medical system was well established around 2500 to 600 BC, when it evolved into 2 schools: the School of Physicians and the School of Surgeons, similar to allopathy. Charak Samhita, Susrut Samhita, and Ashtang Hridaya Samhita are the Senior Triad texts, and Madhav Nidan Samhita, Sarangdhar Samhita, and Bhavprakash Samhita are the Junior Triad texts. Around 600 BC. Ayurveda was branched into internal medicine; pediatrics; psychiatry; surgery; eye, ear, nose, and throat; toxicology; geriatrics; and eugenics/aphrodisiacs. The body is composed of 3 body doshas, 3 mental doshas, 7 dhatus, and malas. The harmony among the body doshas of vata (nervous system), pitta (enzymes), and kapha (mucus) and the gunas, or mental doshas (which are human attributes: satogun [godly], rajas [kingly], and tamas [evil]), constitutes health, and their disharmony constitutes disease. The management of illness requires balancing the doshas back into a harmonious state through lifestyle interventions, spiritual nurturing, and treatment with herbo-mineral formulas based on one’s mental and bodily constitution.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Himanshu Mistry |
Author | Dinesh Bhugra |
Author | Kutaiba Chaleby |
Author | Farooq Khan |
Author | Justin Sauer |
Abstract | Facial expressions are significant to decipher information during a dialogue and more so in a clinical consultation. Veils (Niqab) worn by Muslim women may pose a clinical dilemma for the psychiatric assessment especially if clinicians are not aware of their religious significance. To investigate whether clinical judgment is affected if full facial expressions are not accessible, we conducted an email survey of psychiatrists and psychologists across the world who frequently work in these situations. Of 25 colleagues contacted 16 responded and 11 of them agreed for their comments to be included in the study. Nine out of 11 believed clinical assessment may be compromised, although respondents were aware of cultural sensitivity around the issue. Two out of 11 however, felt fully able to assess the mental state of a veiled woman. Some professionals reported that they feel unable to assess or treat if the request to take the veil off is declined. This small survey demonstrates the diverse opinions on whether unveiling is necessary for psychiatric assessment. Further qualitative examination of this area is needed to develop wider consensus and guidance to mental health care professionals who may be dealing with these groups. |
Publication | Transcultural Psychiatry |
Volume | 46 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 642-650 |
Date | Dec 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Transcult Psychiatry |
DOI | 10.1177/1363461509351366 |
ISSN | 1461-7471 |
Short Title | Veiled communication |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20028681 |
Accessed | Monday, December 28, 2009 2:30:55 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20028681 |
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Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:21 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Houchang D Modanlou |
Publication | Archives of Iranian Medicine |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 673-677 |
Date | Nov 2008 |
Journal Abbr | Arch Iran Med |
ISSN | 1029-2977 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18976043 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:20:25 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18976043 |
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The resurgence of Islamic Civilization in the Near East in the 7th century AD and its expansion to Persian Empire and Westward provided opportunities of access Persian, Hellenic, and Roman writings in philosophy and medicine. Based on their observations and experiences, Islamic physician-philosophers expanded upon those writings and at times challenged them. Among these physician-philosophers admiring and challenging Galen was Zakariya Razi described as the greatest physician of Islam and Medieval Ages. A search of electronic and written materials about early Islamic Medicine was carried out focusing on Persian physician-philosophers Zakariya Razi. Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, known in the West as Rhazes, was born in 865 AD in the ancient city of Rey, Near Tehran. A musician during his youth he became an alchemist. He discovered alcohol and sulfuric acid. He classified substances as plants, organic, and inorganic. At age 30, he undertook the study of medicine. He was a prolific writer with more than 184 texts in medicine attributed to him with 40 of them currently available. Among them are Kitab al-Mansoori, Kitab al-Hawi, and Kitab al -Judari wa al-Hasabah. The latter is the first scientific description for the recognition and differentiation of smallpox and measles. The Bulletin of the World Health Organization of May 1970 pays tribute to Razi by stating “His writings on smallpox and measles show originality and accuracy, and his essay on infectious diseases was the first scientific treatise on the subject”. Razi established qualifications and ethical standards for the practice of medicine. Zakariya Razi was not only one of the most important Persian physician-philosophers of his era, but for centuries his writings became fundamental teaching texts in European medical schools. Some important aspects of his contributions to medicine are reviewed.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A Mohit |
Publication | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal = La Revue De Santé De La Méditerranée Orientale = Al-Majallah Al-Ṣiḥḥīyah Li-Sharq Al-Mutawassiṭ |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 336-347 |
Date | May 2001 |
Journal Abbr | East. Mediterr. Health J |
ISSN | 1020-3397 |
Short Title | Mental health and psychiatry in the Middle East |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12690751 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12690751 |
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A brief account is given of attitudes towards mental health and the development of psychiatry in the Middle East from an historical perspective. The Middle East is considered as a cultural entity and the influence of the beliefs and practices of ancient times on the collective mind of the people of the Region is discussed.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | James Morley |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 51 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 73-82 |
Date | Jan., 2001 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
Short Title | Inspiration and Expiration |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1400036 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:11:17 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 University of Hawai'i Press |
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An interpretation of the yoga practice of pranayama (breath control) that is influenced by the existential phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty is offered. The approach to yoga is less concerned with comparing his thought to the classical yoga texts than with elucidating the actual experience of breath control through the constructs provided by Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the lived body. The discussion of yoga can answer certain pedagogical goals but can never finally be severed from doing yoga. Academic discourse centered entirely on the theoretical concepts of yoga philosophies must to some extent remain incomplete. Patañjali’s “Yoga Sutra” is itself a manual of practice. For this reason, the commentary of the scholar-practitioner T. K. V. Desikachar has been chosen as the basis for this study, rather than a more exclusively theoretical commentary. In so doing, yoga will be approached as an experience or phenomenon, not just in the context of a series of academic debates.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | David B. Morris |
Abstract | The modernist “biomedical model” offers an inadequate understanding of illness. At the same time, some of the conceptual constructs that are offered to supplement the biomedical model are carelessly employed. Much that is said and written about empathy and healing, in particular, fails to reflect the historical and critical self-awareness of postmodern thinking at its best. |
Publication | The Hastings Center Report |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 7-16 |
Date | Nov. - Dec., 2000 |
ISSN | 00930334 |
Short Title | How to Speak Postmodern |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3528447 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:28:48 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. - Dec., 2000 / Copyright © 2000 The Hastings Center |
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The modernist “biomedical model” offers an inadequate understanding of illness. At the same time, some of the conceptual constructs that are offered to supplement the biomedical model are carelessly employed. Much that is said and written about empathy and healing, in particular, fails to reflect the historical and critical self-awareness of postmodern thinking at its best.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A R Murthy |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 27 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-14 |
Date | Jan 1997 |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
Short Title | Dhanwantari |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12572586 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 12572586 |
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The original conception of Ayurveda in its entirety is essentially linked to Dhanwantari who is considered as God of Hindu Medicine. Dhanwantari is considered a mythical deity born with ambrosia in one hand and Ayurveda on the other at the end of the churning of milk ocean. He reincarnated himself in the Chandra dynasty. He was born to King Dhanwa, learnt Ayurveda from Bharadwaja. His great grandson Divodasa was also known as Dhanwantari, but was specialised only in surgical branch of Ayurveda. Sushruta, is said to have learnt the art of science of surgery from Divodasa Dhanwantara.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | T Naidoo |
Publication | Medicine and Law |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 643-647 |
Date | 1989 |
Journal Abbr | Med Law |
ISSN | 0723-1393 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/2495404 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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In the Hindu tradition, ‘health’ means the continued maintenance of the best possible working of the human body under normal, and sometimes even abnormal, environmental conditions. Hindu religious teaching on healthy living and ethical considerations culminate in spiritual objectives if the injunctions contained in the system are followed. Hatha yoga is a system of bodily care that is conducive to such health, which also corrects disease via the regulation of muscular action and in other ways. Other systems of medicine, such as Ayurveda and other traditional systems in Hindu culture, have been devised for the good of humanity. It is, however, the holistic approach to health in Hinduism that calls attention to such causes of ill health as climatic extremes, bacterial attack, nutritional deviance, stress, and other forms of emotional imbalance. A state of good health is within the reach of most persons if they cultivate habits that are conducive to physical and spiritual well-being. The concept of preventive medicine is probably also based on the tenet that the attainment of good health is a religious duty, and corresponding injunctions are found in abundance in Hindu scriptures. It is not the training of students in the medical profession that is most important for health care, but rather their concern for health and their willingness to apply themselves to the observation of the rules they would wish their patients to observe.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A Narayana |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 25 |
Issue | 1-2 |
Pages | 100-110 |
Date | 1995 |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11618829 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 11618829 |
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A high quality of Medical Knowledge was prevalent in ancient India. The present day Archaeological evidences of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa imparts the high civilization in matters of sanitation and hygiene. An analysis of the material in the Vedas reveals that, all the four Vedas replete the references regarding various aspects of medicine. The Atharva Veda is deemed to be an encyclopaedia for medicine “Interalia”, and Ayurveda (the science of life) is considered as Upa Veda (supplementary subject) of the Atharva Veda. A few glimpses of medical Science as prevalent in the ancient India have been presented here.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ala Narayana |
Author | G S Lavekar |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 131-146 |
Date | 2005 Jul-Dec |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17333669 |
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The Pali canon consists of three Pitakas (baskets), which replete the Buddhism and is known as Tripitaka, viz, Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma Pitakas. The original phase of Tripitaka (Buddhisim started in 544 B.C. and lastly systematized up to 29 B.C. The Buddhist literature also possesses the esoteric material of Medical Science, which is practiced and conserved in India since centuries. It refers to the fundamentals of medicine, rules of good living, which lay considerable emphasis on the hygiene of body, mind. Internal Medicine, curative medicine including symptoms, methods of diagnosis, theories of causation, materia-medica, therapeutics and treatment and skills of Jivaka. Some famous and popular prescriptions are also dealt with.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ala Narayana |
Author | Varanasi Subhose |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 21-32 |
Date | 2005 Jan-Jun |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
Short Title | Standardization of Ayurvĕdic formulations |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17333659 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:29:26 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 17333659 |
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Safety and efficacy of a drug mainly depends on the method of preparation. To assess the quality of a finished product, there should be some basic standards as well as methods of preparation. There are several parameters for testing the quality of a chemical drug, which have, are true indicators. So, there is no problem in assessing a synthetic drug’s quality. As far as the preparation used in Ayurvedic system of medicine, a drug formulation or design may not be a problem, because many formulations are well documented in classical texts. But, there is confusion with respect to standards to be followed while preparing a formulation as well as basic parameters to assess the quality of the finished product. In Ayurveda, pañcavidhakasayakalpana are the basic pharmaceutical preparations, from which all the other preparations are developed. A specific method for each and every preparation and some basic standards of finished products are mentioned in Ayurvedic texts to maintain their quality. This information may some times vary from text to text. To overcome this problem Sarangdhara mentioned detailed information about various formulations with respect to their methods of preparation as well as basic standards and are documented in Sarangdhara Samhita.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Suzanne Newcombe |
Abstract | Yoga is now found in urban centres and rural retreats across the world as well as in its historical home in the Indian subcontinent. What is now practiced as yoga across the globe has a long history of transnational intercultural exchange and has been considered by some as an outgrowth of Neo-Hinduism. Although the popularisation of yoga is often cited in theories about 'Easternization' or the 're-enchantment' of the West since the late 20th century, most of these theories make little reference to the growing number of historical, sociological and anthropological studies of modern yoga. This article will consider how the apparent dichotomy between yoga as a physical fitness activity (often termed 'hatha yoga') and/or as a 'spiritual practice' developed historically and discuss recent trends in the research. |
Publication | Religion Compass |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 986-1002 |
Date | December 2009 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00171.x |
Short Title | The Development of Modern Yoga |
URL | http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00171.x |
Accessed | Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:09:31 PM |
Library Catalog | Wiley InterScience |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:21 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:21 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kho Nishimura |
Publication | Current Anthropology |
Volume | 28 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | S59-S64 |
Date | Aug. - Oct., 1987 |
ISSN | 00113204 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2743439 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:49:07 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Supplement: An Anthropological Profile of Japan / Full publication date: Aug. - Oct., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 The University of Chicago Press |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Dennis Normile |
Publication | Science |
Volume | 299 |
Issue | 5604 |
Pages | 188-190 |
Date | Jan. 10, 2003 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 00368075 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3833313 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:49:07 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan. 10, 2003 / Copyright © 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Ronald L Numbers |
Author | Darrel W Amundsen |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 0029192706 |
Short Title | Caring and Curing |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BL 65.M4 C277 1986 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Gananath Obeyesekere |
Publication | Comparative Studies in Society and History |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 292-296 |
Date | Jul., 1970 |
ISSN | 00104175 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/178239 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A Okasha |
Publication | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal = La Revue De Santé De La Méditerranée Orientale = Al-Majallah Al-Ṣiḥḥīyah Li-Sharq Al-Mutawassiṭ |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 377-380 |
Date | May 2001 |
Journal Abbr | East. Mediterr. Health J |
ISSN | 1020-3397 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12690756 |
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This paper provides an historical look at the Egyptian contribution to mental health from Pharaonic times through to the Islamic era and up to today. The current situation as regards mental health in Egypt is described.
Type | Book |
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Author | Shelley Anne Osterreich |
Series | Bibliographies and indexes in American history |
Series Number | no. 38 |
Place | Westport, Conn |
Publisher | Greenwood Press |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 0313301689 |
Short Title | Native North American Shamanism |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | Z1209.2.N67 O77 1998 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A I Padela |
Author | H Shanawani |
Author | J Greenlaw |
Author | H Hamid |
Author | M Aktas |
Author | N Chin |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: Islam and Muslims are underrepresented in the medical literature and the influence of physician's cultural beliefs and religious values upon the clinical encounter has been understudied. OBJECTIVE: To elicit the perceived influence of Islam upon the practice patterns of immigrant Muslim physicians in the USA. DESIGN: Ten face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews with Muslim physicians from various backgrounds and specialties trained outside the USA and practising within the the country. Data were analysed according to the conventions of qualitative research using a modified grounded-theory approach. RESULTS: There were a variety of views on the role of Islam in medical practice. Several themes emerged from our interviews: (1) a trend to view Islam as enhancing virtuous professional behaviour; (2) the perception of Islam as influencing the scope of medical practice through setting boundaries on career choices, defining acceptable medical procedures and shaping social interactions with physician peers; (3) a perceived need for Islamic religious experts within Islamic medical ethical deliberation. Limitations: This is a pilot study intended to yield themes and hypotheses for further investigation and is not meant to fully characterise Muslim physicians at large. CONCLUSIONS: Immigrant Muslim physicians practising within the USA perceive Islam to play a variable role within their clinical practice, from influencing interpersonal relations and character development to affecting specialty choice and procedures performed. Areas of ethical challenges identified include catering to populations with lifestyles at odds with Islamic teachings, end-of-life care and maintaining a faith identity within the culture of medicine. Further study of the interplay between Islam and Muslim medical practice and the manner and degree to which Islamic values and law inform ethical decision-making is needed. |
Publication | Journal of Medical Ethics |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 365-369 |
Date | May 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Med Ethics |
DOI | 10.1136/jme.2007.021345 |
ISSN | 1473-4257 |
Short Title | The perceived role of Islam in immigrant Muslim medical practice within the USA |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18448718 |
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Background: Islam and Muslims are underrepresented in the medical literature and the influence of physician’s cultural beliefs and religious values upon the clinical encounter has been understudied. Objective: To elicit the perceived influence of Islam upon the practice patterns of immigrant Muslim physicians in the USA. Design: Ten face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews with Muslim physicians from various backgrounds and specialties trained outside the USA and practising within the the country. Data were analysed according to the conventions of qualitative research using a modified grounded-theory approach. Results: There were a variety of views on the role of Islam in medical practice. Several themes emerged from our interviews: (1) a trend to view Islam as enhancing virtuous professional behaviour; (2) the perception of Islam as influencing the scope of medical practice through setting boundaries on career choices, defining acceptable medical procedures and shaping social interactions with physician peers; (3) a perceived need for Islamic religious experts within Islamic medical ethical deliberation. Limitations: This is a pilot study intended to yield themes and hypotheses for further investigation and is not meant to fully characterise Muslim physicians at large. Conclusions: Immigrant Muslim physicians practising within the USA perceive Islam to play a variable role within their clinical practice, from influencing interpersonal relations and character development to affecting specialty choice and procedures performed. Areas of ethical challenges identified include catering to populations with lifestyles at odds with Islamic teachings, end-of-life care and maintaining a faith identity within the culture of medicine. Further study of the interplay between Islam and Muslim medical practice and the manner and degree to which Islamic values and law inform ethical decision-making is needed.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | P Pandikumar |
Author | M Chellappandian |
Author | S Mutheeswaran |
Author | S Ignacimuthu |
Abstract | AIM OF THE STUDY The role of ethnobotany in drug discovery is huge but there are criticisms over such studies due to their qualitative nature. The present study is aimed at quantitatively abstracting the medicinal plant knowledge of the healers trained in traditional ways, in Mayiladumparai block of Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS The interviews and field observations were carried out in all the 18 village panchayaths from January to June 2010, consisting of 148 field days. The interviews were conducted with 80 traditional healers, after obtaining prior informed consent. Successive free listing was used to interview the informants. The informant consensus factor (F(ic)) was calculated to estimate the use variability of medicinal plants. Fidelity index and Cultural importance index were also calculated to analyze the data. RESULTS This study recorded the ethno-medicinal usage of 142 ethno-species belonging to 62 families that were used to prepare 504 formulations. Jaundice had the highest F(ic) value than all the illness categories studied. Phyllanthus spp. was the highly cited medicinal plant to treat jaundice and had high fidelity index value. This was followed by Senna angustifolia and Terminalia chebula as laxatives. The highly cited medicinal plants in each group with high F(ic) value were Pongamia pinnata (antiseptic), Aerva lanata (antidote and snakebite), Blepharis maderaspatensis (cuts and wounds), Abutilon indicum (hemorrhoids), Ruta graveolens (spiritual medicine), Ocimum tenuiflorum (cough), and Solanum trilobatum (pulmonary ailments). Phyllanthus spp., was the most culturally significant species according to this index, followed by Borassus flebellifer. CONCLUSION The process of drug discovery has become highly expensive and post-approval and post-marketing withdrawal of drugs is continuing. In such scenario, reverse pharmacology is considered an attractive option. The medicinal plants enumerated in this study with high number of citations and high F(ic) values for illness categories might give some useful leads for further biomedical research. |
Publication | Journal of Ethnopharmacology |
Volume | 134 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 354-362 |
Date | Mar 24, 2011 |
Journal Abbr | J Ethnopharmacol |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jep.2010.12.027 |
ISSN | 1872-7573 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21193023 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Bhushan Patwardhan |
Author | Dnyaneshwar Warude |
Author | P Pushpangadan |
Author | Narendra Bhatt |
Publication | Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: eCAM |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 465-473 |
Date | Dec 2005 |
Journal Abbr | Evid Based Complement Alternat Med |
DOI | 10.1093/ecam/neh140 |
ISSN | 1741-427X |
Short Title | Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16322803 |
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Ayurveda, the traditional Indian medicine (TIM) and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) remain the most ancient yet living traditions. There has been increased global interest in traditional medicine. Efforts to monitor and regulate herbal drugs and traditional medicine are underway. China has been successful in promoting its therapies with more research and science-based approach, while Ayurveda still needs more extensive scientific research and evidence base. This review gives an overview of basic principles and commonalities of TIM and TCM and discusses key determinants of success, which these great traditions need to address to compete in global markets.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kishor Patwardhan |
Author | Sangeeta Gehlot |
Author | Girish Singh |
Author | H C S Rathore |
Publication | Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: eCAM |
Date | Aug 17, 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Evid Based Complement Alternat Med |
DOI | 10.1093/ecam/nep113 |
ISSN | 1741-427X |
Short Title | The Ayurveda Education in India |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19687194 |
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Ayurveda’ is an ancient system of healthcare that is native to India. At present, in India, there are more than 240 colleges that offer a graduate-level degree (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery-BAMS) in Ayurveda. Even though the Central Council of Indian Medicine, the governing body that monitors the matters related to Ayurveda education, has imposed various educational norms and regulations, the standard of education has been a cause of concern in recent years. The mushrooming of substandard Ayurvedic colleges is the most important factor that is being held responsible for this kind of erosion in the standards. The present study is a mailed survey, which was carried out to evaluate the ‘Extent of exposure to basic clinical skills during BAMS course’ as perceived by the sample groups of students and teachers drawn from 32 Ayurvedic educational institutions spread all over India. A methodically validated questionnaire was used as the tool in the study, to which 1022 participants responded. The study indicates that there are some serious flaws in the existing system of the graduate-level Ayurveda education. Since the Ayurvedic graduates play an important role in the primary healthcare delivery system of the country, governing bodies are required to take necessary steps to ensure the adequate exposure of the students to basic clinical skills. Along with the strict implementation of all the regulatory norms during the process of recognition of the colleges, introducing some changes in the policy model may also be required to tackle the situation.
Type | Book |
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Author | Arvilla Payne-Jackson |
Author | Mervyn C Alleyne |
Place | Kingston, Jamaica |
Publisher | University of the West Indies Press |
Date | 2004 |
ISBN | 9766401233 |
Short Title | Jamaican Folk Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR121.J2 P39 2004 |
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This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaican. The authors analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, extensive fieldwork and interviews. They explore the sociological and ethnological dimensions of common healing practices and Jamaica’s biodiversity, in both flora and in fauna. As is the case with other aspects of Jamaican traditional culture, Jamaican folk medicine is largely misunderstood and subject to negative pejorative attitudes. This comprehensive study challenges some of the myths and misinformation. Particular attention is paid to cultural transference from Africa and the use of herbals in African-Jamaican religions. The comprehensive book is of academic value to teachers, students and researchers, and can also aid practitioners and policy makers in the field of health and healing.
Type | Book |
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Author | Mark A Pearson |
Edition | 2nd ed |
Place | Grand Rapids, Mich |
Publisher | Chosen Books |
Date | 1995 |
ISBN | 0800792211 |
Short Title | Christian Healing |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BT732.5 .P415 1995 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Robert Peel |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 0824508955 |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX6950 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Larry G. Peters |
Abstract | The "calling" that inflicts the neophyte Tamang shaman is a "creative illness" reflecting an endogenous process that has the structure and function of a rite of passage. Shamanic apprenticeship includes the deliberate induction and mastery of trance states that originally afflicted the shaman. Mastery is equivalent to a psychotherapy, and Tamang initiation involves techniques that are also found in its Western and Eastern (yoga) counterparts. However, it is distinct from both in its social and psychological goals. [shamanism, altered states of consciousness, psychotherapy, religious experience, symbolism] |
Publication | American Ethnologist |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 21-46 |
Date | Feb., 1982 |
ISSN | 00940496 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/644310 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:27:32 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1982 / Copyright © 1982 American Anthropological Association |
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The “calling” that inflicts the neophyte Tamang shaman is a “creative illness” reflecting an endogenous process that has the structure and function of a rite of passage. Shamanic apprenticeship includes the deliberate induction and mastery of trance states that originally afflicted the shaman. Mastery is equivalent to a psychotherapy, and Tamang initiation involves techniques that are also found in its Western and Eastern (yoga) counterparts. However, it is distinct from both in its social and psychological goals. [shamanism, altered states of consciousness, psychotherapy, religious experience, symbolism]
Type | Book |
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Author | Stephen Phillips |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Date | 2009 |
ISBN | 9780231144841 |
Short Title | Yoga, karma, and rebirth |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Margaret M. Poloma |
Abstract | Within the past decade there has been an increasing interest shown in the practice of spiritual healing. Evidence suggests that a sizeable minority of Americans not only believe in spiritual healing but also that they have personally experienced such a healing. This article empirically explores the differences in ideology and practices of a group of Christian Scientists and another of Mainstream Christians who have experienced a physical healing as a result of prayer. It concludes with a discussion of the future of the two very different streams of the religious healing movement. |
Publication | Review of Religious Research |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 337-350 |
Date | Jun., 1991 |
ISSN | 0034673X |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3511680 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:19:29 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1991 / Copyright © 1991 Religious Research Association, Inc. |
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Within the past decade there has been an increasing interest shown in the practice of spiritual healing. Evidence suggests that a sizable minority of Americans not only believe in spiritual healing but also that they have personally experienced such a healing. This article empirically explores the differences in ideology and practices of a group of Christian Scientists and another of Mainstream Christians who have experienced a physical healing as a result of prayer. It concludes with a discussion of the future of the two very different streams of the religious healing movement.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Peter E Pormann |
Publication | Lancet |
Volume | 373 |
Issue | 9675 |
Pages | 1598-1599 |
Date | May 9, 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Lancet |
ISSN | 1474-547X |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19437603 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19437603 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Peter E Pormann |
Author | Emilie Savage-Smith |
Place | Washington, D.C |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Date | 2007 |
ISBN | 9781589011601 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R128.3 .P67 2007 |
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The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. It is the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting caliphs, kings, courtiers, courtesans, and the common crowd. This tradition formed the roots from which modern Western medicine arose. Contrary to the stereotypical picture, medieval Islamic medicine was not simply a conduit for Greek ideas, but a venue for innovation and change. The book is organized around five topics: the emergence of medieval Islamic medicine and its intense cross-pollination with other cultures; the theoretical medical framework; the function of physicians within the larger society; medical care as seen through preserved case histories; and the role of magic and devout religious invocations in scholarly as well as everyday medicine. A concluding chapter on the “afterlife” concerns the impact of this tradition on modern European medical practices, and its continued practice today. The book includes an index of persons and their books; a timeline of developments in East and West; and a chapter-by-chapter annotated bibliographic essay.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Amanda Porterfield |
Publication | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 721-739 |
Date | Winter, 1987 |
ISSN | 00027189 |
Short Title | Shamanism |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1464682 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:49:25 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Winter, 1987 / Copyright © 1987 American Academy of Religion |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Paul Posadzki |
Author | Samantha Jacques |
Abstract | The aim of this article is to review the literature on Tai Chi and meditation. A coherent construct is developed that includes a comparative analysis and conceptual synthesis of existing theories. The authors discuss a set of assumptions that justify this synthesis; they also argue that this construct would facilitate greater understanding of Tai Chi from the perspective of meditation. Such synthesis may bring "additional" benefits to Tai Chi practitioners as they could recognize that this mind-body technique holds the essence of meditation. Within the scope of this article, the evidence shows a majority of common features when concerning Tai Chi and meditation. These mutual similarities should be taken into account when performing this type of mind-body medicine by patients and/or therapists. Finally, the authors suggest that this inspiring compilation of movements and mindfulness can be used for practical purposes. |
Publication | Journal of Holistic Nursing: Official Journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association |
Volume | 27 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 103-114 |
Date | Jun 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Holist Nurs |
DOI | 10.1177/0898010108330807 |
ISSN | 0898-0101 |
Short Title | Tai chi and meditation |
Accessed | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:08:07 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19443697 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Paul Posadzki |
Author | Sheetal Parekh |
Author | Marie-Luce O'Driscoll |
Author | Dariusz Mucha |
Abstract | This paper qualitatively reviews two complementary therapies; Qi Gong and educational kinesiology (EK). It is being suggested that Qi Gong and EK may be united through a qualitative convergence and a shared underlying concept. The authors hypothesize that a coherent rationale can be formed through this conceptual synthesis and propose that to some extent Qi Gong movements and EK can be considered to work in unison with each other. The logical synthesis of these two therapies is being presented to identify Qi Gong movements with concepts of brain gymnastics and also to explain how this new construct can be developed and implemented into practice. When verified, this hypothesis will allow individuals to better understand Chinese health exercises from the modern science perspective such as neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and psychoneuroimmunology. |
Publication | Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 73-79 |
Date | Jan 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Bodyw Mov Ther |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jbmt.2008.11.002 |
ISSN | 1532-9283 |
Short Title | Qi Gong's relationship to educational kinesiology |
Accessed | Friday, January 29, 2010 11:52:46 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20006292 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | S. Prabhakar |
Author | J.S. Chopra |
Abstract | Ayurvedic medicine in neurology S. Prabhakar, J.S. Chopra. Department of Neurology, Postgraduate Inst. of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India Ayurveda is a system of traditional medicine native to India and is considered a form of complementary alternative medicine in West. Ayurveda focuses on exercise, yoga, meditation, massage in addition to medication. There is comprehensive treatment of neurological disorders in Ayurveda. Details will be discussed. Few of the commonly used Ayurvedic medicines are described. Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) is creeping herb commonly found throughout India. Its constituents include Alkaloids resembling strychnine in therapeutic action but less toxic. Bacopa extract contains Bacosideand B known since 5000 BC. It is used in Neurology as nerve tonic, for treatment of insanity and epilepsy. It has been mentioned to improve process of learning, restoring memory, enhancing power of speech and imagination. Bacopa was documented to exert antiamnesic effect on diazepam induced anterograde amnesia in mice by the author. Brahmi has anti-oxidant effect, improving activities of defense enzymes. It has anti-stress activity in rat. Bacopa protects against electric shock seizures and chemoconvulsion. Tulsi (Occimum sanctum) called Holy Basil in West is known for its religious / spiritual sanctity. Included in Rigveda – 5000 BC. It is known to protect and reduce stress, enhance stamina, boost immune system and lessen aging factor. It has antibiotic, antioxidant and antiepileptic properties. Guggulipid (Commiphora mukul) is used in stroke to treat hyperlipidaemia. It reduces cholesterol production in liver. Sarapgandha (Rauwolfia sarpantina), Dashmool and Ashwagandha are also used in management of stroke. Ashwagandha is also used in Epilepsy. Mucuna pruriens and Vicia fava beans (English dwarf beans) have long been used in Parkinson’s disease, as natural source of L-dopa |
Publication | Journal of the Neurological Sciences |
Volume | 285 |
Issue | Supplement 1 |
Pages | S51-S52 |
Date | October 2009 |
DOI | 10.1016/S0022-510X(09)70243-6 |
ISSN | 0022-510X |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/science/article/B6T06-4XK3X1N-84/2/aa080d0ae3e1bd9d39a2d4b3031a8918 |
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Library Catalog | ScienceDirect |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | R Z Qiu |
Publication | The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 277-299 |
Date | Aug 1988 |
Journal Abbr | J Med Philos |
ISSN | 0360-5310 |
Short Title | Medicine--the art of humaneness |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/3058852 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:19:58 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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This essay discusses the ethics of traditional Chinese medicine. After a brief remark on the history of traditional Chinese medical ethics, the author outlines the Confucian ethics which formed the cultural context in which traditional Chinese medicine was evolving and constituted the core of its ethics. Then he argued that how Chinese physicians applied the principles of Confucian ethics in medicine and prescribed the attitude a physician should take to himself, to patients and to his colleagues. In the last part of the essay he discusses the characteristics of traditional Chinese medical ethics.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Mohamed Y Rady |
Author | Joseph L Verheijde |
Abstract | Organ transplantation has become an established treatment option for end-stage organ disease. Both living and end-of-life (so called deceased) organ donation narrow the gap between supply and demand for transplantable organs. Advances in human biology prove that death occurs as a gradual process over time and not as a single discrete event. Declaring death with either neurological criteria (heart-beating organ donation) or circulatory criteria (non-heart-beating organ donation) enables the procurement of transplantable organs before human death is complete, namely, from the incipiently dying donor. Thus, surgical procurement of organs from the incipiently dying donor is the proximate cause of death, raising new questions on end-of-life organ donation. It is imperative to first and foremost care for the patient as a dying person. International Muslim scholars should reevaluate previous Islamic rulings and provide guidance about current practice of end-of-life organ donation. |
Publication | Saudi Medical Journal |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | 882-886 |
Date | Jul 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Saudi Med J |
ISSN | 0379-5284 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19618000 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:17:11 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19618000 |
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Organ transplantation has become an established treatment option for end-stage organ disease. Both living and end-of-life (so called deceased) organ donation narrow the gap between supply and demand for transplantable organs. Advances in human biology prove that death occurs as a gradual process over time and not as a single discrete event. Declaring death with either neurological criteria (heart-beating organ donation) or circulatory criteria (non-heart-beating organ donation) enables the procurement of transplantable organs before human death is complete, namely, from the incipiently dying donor. Thus, surgical procurement of organs from the incipiently dying donor is the proximate cause of death, raising new questions on end-of-life organ donation. It is imperative to first and foremost care for the patient as a dying person. International Muslim scholars should reevaluate previous Islamic rulings and provide guidance about current practice of end-of-life organ donation.
Type | Book |
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Author | Fazlur Rahman |
Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1987 |
ISBN | 0824507975 |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BP166.72 |
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This is a pioneering attempt to portray the relationship of Islam as a system of faith and as a tradition to human health and health care. The author explores Wellness and Illness in the Islamic World view, the Religious Valuation of Medicine, The Prophetic Medicine, Medical Care, Medical Ethics and Passages.
Type | Book |
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Editor | Eric Ram |
Place | Monrovia, Calif., U.S.A |
Publisher | MARC |
Date | 1995 |
ISBN | 0912552891 |
Short Title | Transforming Health |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BT732 .T73 1995 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Sanjeev Rastogi |
Publication | Indian Journal of Medical Ethics |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 101-102 |
Date | 2009 Apr-Jun |
Journal Abbr | Indian J Med Ethics |
ISSN | 0974-8466 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19517655 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | David Riches |
Abstract | The article lays out in schematic fashion a composite of socio-intellectual processes, arguabley evident in respect of all cosmologies, which might appropriately be labelled 'religous'. It does so by applying deductive reasoning to shamanism, the prevalent religion in societies whose social structures are ssimple and in whose cosmologies religious process is conspicuous; here the Canadian Inuit (Eskimo) provide the ethnographic focus. The article assumes that religious process finds its basis in fundamental contradictions concerning the conditions of social existence, namely in the antithesis between social structure and communitas. Cosmology is generated as this contradiction is contemplated by, respectively, laypeople and specialist, both with their own interests in view. The argument also considers such central cultural and analytical isues as the existence of distinctive notions of the human person, and the pertinence for the study of religion of, variously, 'secondary elaborations', systems of classification, and religious edicts; and it joins with Barth in emphasizing the salience of the specialist in 'cosmology-making'. |
Publication | Man |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 381-405 |
Date | Jun., 1994 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 00251496 |
Short Title | Shamanism |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2804479 |
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Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1994 / Copyright © 1994 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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The article lays out in schematic fashion a composite of socio-intellectual processes, arguable evident in respect of all cosmologies, which might appropriately be labeled ‘religious’. It does so by applying deductive reasoning to shamanism, the prevalent religion in societies whose social structures are simple and in whose cosmologies religious process is conspicuous; here the Canadian Inuit (Eskimo) provide the ethnographic focus. The article assumes that religious process finds its basis in fundamental contradictions concerning the conditions of social existence, namely in the antithesis between social structure and communitas. Cosmology is generated as this contradiction is contemplated by, respectively, laypeople and specialists, both with their own interests in view. The argument also considers such central cultural and analytical issues as the existence of distinctive notions of the human person, and the pertinence for the study of religion of, variously, ‘secondary elaborations’, systems of classification, and religious edicts; and it joins with Barth in emphasizing the salience of the specialist in ‘cosmology-making’.
Type | Book |
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Author | W. H. R Rivers |
Series | Routledge classics |
Place | London |
Publisher | Routledge |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 0415254035 |
Short Title | Medicine, Magic, and Religion |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GN477 .R5 2001 |
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This work represents the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916. It represents perhaps the first attempt to interpret with real knowledge and sympathetic insight the thoughts and ideas that find expression in primitive medicine. It is therefore a contribution of unique value to the history of medicine.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Nancy Romero-Daza |
Abstract | Traditional medicine is the main, and often the only, source of medical care for a great proportion of the population of the developing world. Systems of traditional medicine are usually rooted in long-standing cultural traditions, take a holistic approach to health, and are community based. The World Health Organization has long recognized the central role traditional systems of care can play in efforts to provide primary health care, especially in rural areas. This article provides an overview of national policies adopted by African governments following World Health Organization recommendations for the incorporation of traditional and allopathic systems of care. |
Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Volume | 583 |
Pages | 173-176 |
Date | Sep., 2002 |
ISSN | 00027162 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049695 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:17:19 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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Traditional medicine is the main, and often the only, source of medical care for a great proportion of the population of the developing world. Systems of traditional medicine are usually rooted in long-standing cultural traditions, take a holistic approach to health, and are community based. The World Health Organization has long recognized the central role traditional systems of care can play in efforts to provide primary health care, especially in rural areas. This article provides an overview of national policies adopted by African governments following World Health Organization recommendations for the incorporation of traditional and allopathic systems of care.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Paul J Rosch |
Abstract | The concept of a "life energy" can be found in many cultures in the present time, as well as in past eras reaching back to the ancients. Variously called qi (chi), ki, the "four humors,"prana, "archaeus,""cosmic aether,""universal fluid,""animal magnetism," and "odic force," among other names, this purported biofield is beginning to yield its properties and interactions to the scientific method. Subtle energy is the term used in this chapter, which traces the recent history of subtle energy studies from Harold Saxton Burr and Björn Nordenström to Jim Oschman and Jacques Benveniste. This work takes signaling in living systems from the chemical/molecular to the physical/atomic level of communication. Effects on heart rate variability, stress response, inflammation, and the vagus nerve have been demonstrated and raise the question--Can the power of subtle energies be harnessed for health enhancement? It is fully accepted that good health depends on good communication both within the organism and between the organism and its environment. Sophisticated imaging procedures brought to bear on telomere, stem cell, and genetic research are confirming the ability of meditation and some other traditional practices to promote optimal health through stress reduction. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Pages | 297-311 |
Date | Aug 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04535.x |
ISSN | 1749-6632 |
Short Title | Bioelectromagnetic and subtle energy medicine |
Accessed | Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:41:25 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19735252 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Franz Rosenthal |
Series | Collected studies |
Series Number | CS330 |
Place | Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain |
Publisher | Variorum |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 0860782824 |
Short Title | Science and Medicine in Islam |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | Q127.M628 R67 1990 |
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The achievements of medieval Muslim scholars in the fields of philosophy, science and medicine are now well recognized, and Franz Rosenthal’s work has been instrumental in helping us to understand these. In this third collection of his articles, he demonstrates the information to be gained from tracing the Greek roots of the science and medicine of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages. Of particular concern here are the Hellenistic or late Hellenistic authors such as Galen, Hippocrates or Ptolemy. These articles show how Muslim writers have preserved much that has been lost in the Greek and played a vital part in ensuring the continuity of the classical tradition, and examine some of the specific ways in which they reacted to and developed it. They also deal with questions such as the place of the physician in society and the medical attitude towards homosexuality. As previously, the opportunity has been taken to add extra notes, and there is further included, published for the first time, a complete bibliography of the author’s works.
Type | Book |
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Author | William Rothstein |
Edition | Softshell Books ed. |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 9780801844270 |
Short Title | American physicians in the nineteenth century |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Nirmala S. Salgado |
Publication | Ethnology |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 213-226 |
Date | Summer, 1997 |
ISSN | 00141828 |
Short Title | Sickness, Healing, and Religious Vocation |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3773986 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:41:50 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Summer, 1997 / Copyright © 1997 University of Pittsburgh- Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education |
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This essay examines alternative religious vocations and choices of cures that are open to women in the Sri Lankan Buddhist context. The focus of the investigation is a Theravada Buddhist hermitage that was studied over an eleven-year period. The article presents case histories of nuns who are representative of the individuals living at the hermitage, and demonstrates how the illnesses they suffer concurrently with their ecstatic trances (interpreted as spirit possession) receive meaning and can be cured within the framework of Buddhist asceticism in Sri Lanka.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | N Sarhill |
Author | S LeGrand |
Author | R Islambouli |
Author | M P Davis |
Author | D Walsh |
Abstract | Islam holds life as sacred and belonging to God and that all creatures will die one day. Suicide is forbidden. Muslims believe death is only a transition between two different lives. The terminally ill Muslim desires to perform five ritual requirements. Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are acceptable. A deceased Muslim must always be buried after being ritually washed and wrapped. There are different Muslim schools of thought, but they are united regarding their views on death and dying. |
Publication | The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care |
Volume | 18 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 251-255 |
Date | 2001 Jul-Aug |
Journal Abbr | Am J Hosp Palliat Care |
ISSN | 1049-9091 |
Short Title | The terminally ill Muslim |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11467099 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 11467099 |
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Islam holds life as sacred and belonging to God and that all creatures will die one day. Suicide is forbidden. Muslims believe death is only a transition between two different lives. The terminally ill Muslim desires to perform five ritual requirements. Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are acceptable. A deceased Muslim must always be buried after being ritually washed and wrapped. There are different Muslim schools of thought, but they are united regarding their views on death and dying.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Yumi E Satow |
Author | Praveena D Kumar |
Author | Adam Burke |
Author | John F Inciardi |
Publication | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 1249-1253 |
Date | Dec 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Altern Complement Med |
DOI | 10.1089/acm.2008.0106 |
ISSN | 1557-7708 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19123878 |
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Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19123878 |
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Objective: Despite a growing body of literature on complementary and alternative medicine, there is still limited information on the use of Ayurveda in the United States. Because Ayurveda is one of the world’s major traditional medical systems, knowledge of its use is important. In particular, information on utilization by Asian Indians living in the United States is needed due to increased immigration from India and related regions. Recent reports of heavy metal contamination of some imported Ayurveda products underscore this need. For this reason, an exploratory survey was conducted. Design: A semistructured 21-item questionnaire was administered using face-to-face interviews. PARTICIPANTS AND Setting: The study comprised a convenience sample of 64 Asian Indians living in Northern California. Outcome measures: Main outcome measures included sociodemographic variables, questions on awareness, knowledge and use of Ayurvedic products or services, use of other nutritional/herbal products, and reasons for use. Results: In the sample, 95% of the participants were aware of Ayurveda, 78% had knowledge of Ayurvedic products or treatments, and about 59% had used or were currently using Ayurveda. Only 18% of those using Ayurveda had informed their Western medical doctors. Conclusions: Given its common use in the United States by Asian Indians, its cultural relevance, potential therapeutic value, and possible safety concerns, physician and consumer education along with more empirical research is warranted.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Volker Scheid |
Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Volume | 583 |
Pages | 136-159 |
Date | Sep., 2002 |
ISSN | 00027162 |
Short Title | Remodeling the Arsenal of Chinese Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049693 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:25:17 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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The discourse on alternative medicine assumes that medical practices exist as distinctive medical systems that compete with each other in plural health care systems. Anthropological and historical research clearly demonstrates, however, that this is not so. Many so-called traditional medicines are revealed as inventions of distinctly modern regimes of knowledge and institutional practice, while the political needs of healers and the epistemological desires of researchers converge in the construction of distinctive medical practices for description, classification, and comparison. This article draws on genealogy as a possible way out of this impasse. It shows how different generations of physicians of Chinese medicine employed the same four core concepts to reflect on their practice, imbuing them with ever new meanings to relate them to the changing demands of clinical and political practice. Examining these core concepts reveals something about the essence of Chinese medicine without reducing our analysis to a misguided search for cultural essences.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | John Wm. Schiffeler |
Publication | Asian Folklore Studies |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 17-35 |
Date | 1976 |
ISSN | 03852342 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1177648 |
Accessed | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:00:47 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1976 / Copyright © 1976 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Josef M Schmidt |
Abstract | The question of whether homeopathy is a science is currently discussed almost exclusively against the background of the modern concept of natural science. This approach, however, fails to notice that homeopathy-in terms of history of science-rests on different roots that can essentially be traced back to two most influential traditions of science: on the one hand, principles and notions of Aristotelism which determined 2,000 years of Western history of science and, on the other hand, the modern concept of natural science that has been dominating the history of medicine for less than 200 years. While Aristotle's "science of the living" still included ontologic and teleologic dimensions for the sake of comprehending nature in a uniform way, the interest of modern natural science was reduced to functional and causal explanations of all phenomena for the purpose of commanding nature. In order to prevent further ecological catastrophes as well as to regain lost dimensions of our lives, the one-sidedness and theory-loadedness of our modern natural-scientific view of life should henceforth be counterbalanced by lifeworld-practical Aristotelic categories. In this way, the ground would be ready to conceive the scientific character of homeopathy-in a broader, Aristotelian sense. |
Publication | The Journal of Medical Humanities |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 83-97 |
Date | Jun 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Med Humanit |
DOI | 10.1007/s10912-009-9080-x |
ISSN | 1573-3645 |
Short Title | Is homeopathy a science? |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19148710 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:55:05 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19148710 |
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The question of whether homeopathy is a science is currently discussed almost exclusively against the background of the modern concept of natural science. This approach, however, fails to notice that homeopathy-in terms of history of science-rests on different roots that can essentially be traced back to two most influential traditions of science: on the one hand, principles and notions of Aristotelism which determined 2,000 years of Western history of science and, on the other hand, the modern concept of natural science that has been dominating the history of medicine for less than 200 years. While Aristotle’s “science of the living” still included ontologic and teleologic dimensions for the sake of comprehending nature in a uniform way, the interest of modern natural science was reduced to functional and causal explanations of all phenomena for the purpose of commanding nature. In order to prevent further ecological catastrophes as well as to regain lost dimensions of our lives, the one-sidedness and theory-loadedness of our modern natural-scientific view of life should henceforth be counterbalanced by lifeworld-practical Aristotelic categories. In this way, the ground would be ready to conceive the scientific character of homeopathy-in a broader, Aristotelian sense.
Type | Book |
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Author | Rennie B Schoepflin |
Series | Medicine, science, and religion in historical context |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Date | 2003 |
ISBN | 0801870577 |
Short Title | Christian Science on Trial |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX6950 .S34 2003 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Maureen Trudelle Schwarz |
Place | Norman |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 9780806139418 |
Short Title | "I Choose Life" |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | E99.N3 S3577 2008 |
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This book investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Focusing on Navajo attitudes toward invasive procedures, Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | G I Serour |
Abstract | Assisted reproductive technology is widely practised around the world for the treatment of virtually all forms of infertility. The application of this technology in the Islamic world had been delayed for many years, based on the misconception that Islamic teachings do not approve assisted reproduction. The paper discusses derivation of Islamic rulings and its impact on the ethics of contemporary issues, including family formation and assisted reproduction. It clearly shows that Islam encourages family formation and assisted reproduction, when indicated, within the frame of marriage. It also discusses differences among Muslim sects, Sunni and Shi'aa. The paper also discusses Islamic rulings on the new emerging practices in assisted reproduction, including surrogacy, multifetal pregnancy reduction, cryopreservation, pregnancy in the post-menopausal period, sex selection and embryo implantation following the husband's death. The moral status of the embryo in Islam is discussed. Organ differentiation and ensoulment are believed to occur at 42 days after fertilization at the earliest. As individuation of the embryo does not occur before 14 days from fertilization, research on surplus embryos during this period is allowed. Similarly, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, gene therapy and non-reproductive cloning for the benefit of humanity are ethically acceptable in Islam. This information should help physicians in their decision before conscientious objection to offering various modalities of assisted reproduction to their infertile patients. |
Publication | Reproductive Biomedicine Online |
Volume | 17 Suppl 3 |
Pages | 34-38 |
Date | 2008 |
Journal Abbr | Reprod. Biomed. Online |
ISSN | 1472-6491 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18983735 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:19:53 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18983735 |
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Assisted reproductive technology is widely practised around the world for the treatment of virtually all forms of infertility. The application of this technology in the Islamic world had been delayed for many years, based on the misconception that Islamic teachings do not approve assisted reproduction. The paper discusses derivation of Islamic rulings and its impact on the ethics of contemporary issues, including family formation and assisted reproduction. It clearly shows that Islam encourages family formation and assisted reproduction, when indicated, within the frame of marriage. It also discusses differences among Muslim sects, Sunni and Shi’aa. The paper also discusses Islamic rulings on the new emerging practices in assisted reproduction, including surrogacy, multifetal pregnancy reduction, cryopreservation, pregnancy in the post-menopausal period, sex selection and embryo implantation following the husband’s death. The moral status of the embryo in Islam is discussed. Organ differentiation and ensoulment are believed to occur at 42 days after fertilization at the earliest. As individuation of the embryo does not occur before 14 days from fertilization, research on surplus embryos during this period is allowed. Similarly, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, gene therapy and non-reproductive cloning for the benefit of humanity are ethically acceptable in Islam. This information should help physicians in their decision before conscientious objection to offering various modalities of assisted reproduction to their infertile patients.
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul W Sharkey |
Place | Lewiston, N.Y., USA |
Publisher | E. Mellen Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0773492100 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R723 .S515 1992 |
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The study’s central thesis is that medicine reflects better than any other discipline the ethical crises of our age and that these are the natural result of the schism between “facts” and “values” brought about at the time of the scientific revolution. It offers a brief introduction to the philosophical history of medicine, argues that current ethical theory rests upon a fallacy of abstraction, calls for a more realistic appraisal of ethical responsibility, and challenges the notion that ethics is necessarily more “subjective” than science. The work goes on to examine the role of ethics in medical education, managing ethical issues in health-care delivery systems, medical economics, abortion, and sexually transmissible diseases, giving special attention to the realities of ethical responsibility in each case.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ursula Sharma |
Publication | Anthropology Today |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 15-18 |
Date | Aug., 1993 |
ISSN | 0268540X |
Short Title | Contextualizing Alternative Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2783450 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:10:18 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Aug., 1993 / Copyright © 1993 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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Type | Book |
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Author | P. V Sharma |
Contributor | Indian National Science Academy |
Contributor | David E. Pingree Collection (Brown University) |
Place | New Delhi |
Publisher | Indian National Science Academy |
Date | 1992 |
Library Catalog | josiah.brown.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R605 |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Patricia A. Sharpnack |
Author | Mary T. Quinn Griffin |
Author | Alison M. Benders |
Author | Joyce J. Fitzpatrick |
Abstract | Although the use of spiritual and alternative healthcare practices is increasing, knowledge of these practices among the Amish is limited. This study explored the spiritual and healthcare practices of 134 Amish. Information about the diversity and prevalence of these practices among the Amish may be useful to nurses in practice. |
Publication | Holistic Nursing Practice |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 64-72 |
Date | 2010 Mar-Apr |
Journal Abbr | Holist Nurs Pract |
DOI | 10.1097/HNP.0b013e3181d39ade |
ISSN | 1550-5138 |
Accessed | Monday, March 22, 2010 8:17:27 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20186016 |
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Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:02 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Anees A Sheikh |
Author | Katharina S Sheikh |
Series | Wiley series on health psychology/behavioral medicine |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Wiley |
Date | 1989 |
ISBN | 0471628905 |
Short Title | Eastern and Western Approaches to Healing |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R726.5 .E27 1989 |
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This book surveys the various approaches to health care as defined by the major Eastern and Western philosophies. Contains comments on the effect Eastern thought has had on Western medicine and psychology.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Phillip Shinnick |
Publication | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 351-353 |
Date | May 2006 |
Journal Abbr | J Altern Complement Med |
DOI | 10.1089/acm.2006.12.351 |
ISSN | 1075-5535 |
Short Title | Qigong |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16722782 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:11:25 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 16722782 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Tabona Shoko |
Series | Vitality of indigenous religions |
Place | Aldershot, England |
Publisher | Ashgate |
Date | 2007 |
ISBN | 9780754658818 |
Short Title | Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | DT2913.K38 S46 2007 |
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Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga views of the causes of illness and disease, mechanisms of diagnosis at their disposal and the methods they use to restore health, Shoko discusses the views of a specific African Independent Church of the Apostolic tradition. The conclusion Shoko reaches about the central religious concerns of the Karanga people is derived from detailed field research consisting of interviews and participant observation. This book testifies that the centrality of health and well-being is not only confined to traditional religion but reflects its adaptive potential in new religious systems manifest in the phenomenon of Independent Churches. Rather than succumbing to the folly of static generalizations, Tabona Shoko offers important insights into a particular society upon which theories can be reassessed, adding new dimensions to modern features of the religious scene in Africa.
Type | Book |
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Author | Joel James Shuman |
Series | Radical traditions |
Place | Boulder, Colo |
Publisher | Westview Press |
Date | 1999 |
ISBN | 0813367042 |
Short Title | The Body of Compassion |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R725.56 .S54 1999 |
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Type | Book |
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Contributor | Chacha Nyaigotti Chacha |
Contributor | Mary Peter Kanunah |
Editor | Isaac Sindiga |
Place | Nairobi |
Publisher | East African Educational Publishers |
Date | 1995 |
ISBN | 9966465480 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR350 .T73 1995 |
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The inaccessibility of biomedicine to most of Africa’s population because of escalating costs has necessitated a search for alternative ways of managing illnesses. Traditional medicine, which has always been practised in the indigenous cultures, is fast filling this therapeutic gap. This book is a collection of essays based on a multidisciplinary approach to traditional medicine in Africa. It has contributions from social scientists, natural resource experts, traditional medical practitioners, educationists, and medical scholars. It attempts to define the problems of traditional medicine in Africa, while also discussing the conceptual foundations of African ethnomedicine and medical pluralism.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | A Singh |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 41-58 |
Date | 2000 Jan-Jun |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
Short Title | The bias against India in western literature on history of medicine |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12578015 |
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The article describes a systematic bias against India in Western literature on history of medicine. While many authors have ignored the contributions of India in development of medicine altogether, the others have relegated India’s role much behind other civilizations. Unnecessary and deliberate controversies on dating and origin of Ayurveda, primacy of Greek vs. Hindu Medicine and the origin of the practice of variolation have been elaborated by Western authors. Some medical historians, like Siegrist, have tried to give India its due place in the history of medicine. Suitable references of Indian authors have also been quoted to give a comparative and balanced picture. The need for settling this controversy has been emphasized.
Type | Book |
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Author | David Smith |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 9780824507169 |
Short Title | Health and medicine in the Anglican tradition |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | H Soreq |
Place | Weinheim; Chichester |
Publisher | Wiley-VCH |
Date | 2009 |
ISBN | 9783527323746 |
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Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Howard M Spiro |
Author | Mary G. McCrea Curnen |
Author | Lee Palmer Wandel |
Contributor | Yale University |
Contributor | Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass.) |
Place | New Haven |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Date | 1996 |
ISBN | 0300063490 |
Short Title | Facing Death |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
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This book brings together health professionals and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. Physicians and other caregivers describe their experiences witnessing death, and theologians, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars, and pastors tell how other cultures and religions perceive death and mourn. For medical personnel and for patients, this collection affirms that death is less an adversary than a defining part of life.
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul Starr |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Date | 1982 |
ISBN | 9780465079346 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries.
Type | Book |
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Author | Michel Strickmann |
Place | Stanford Calif. |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Date | 2002 |
ISBN | 9780804734493 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, it provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Varanasi Subhose |
Author | Ala Narayana |
Author | P V V Prasad |
Author | M Mruthyumjaya Rao |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 97-116 |
Date | 2006 Jul-Dec |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18175646 |
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Extra | PMID: 18175646 |
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The Puranas are the encyclopedic works of the ancient and medieval Hindu religion, philosophy, history, politics, ethics, sciences etc. There are 18 (Astadasa) puranas, which are, considered as mahapuranas, among which Garudapurana is popular one. The Garudapurana is divided into two parts viz., Purvakhanda and Uttarakhanda. The first part, which is also called Acarakhanda consists of 240 chapters. The greater part of the Purvakhanda occupies the descriptions of Vratas (religious observances), sacred places dedicated to the Surya (sun), Lord Siva and Lord Visnu. It also contains treatises on various aspects like astrology, palmistry, politics, Sankhya, Yoga, anatomy, precious stones and extensive information on vedic medicine i.e., Ayurveda. The Uttarakhanda consists of two khandas viz. Dharmakhanda and Brahmakhanda, which are divided into 42 and 29 chapters, respectively. The Dharmakhanda is also known as the Pretakalpa which contains directions for the performance of obsequies rites. The Pretakalpa portion of the Garudapurana is generally recited during the period of mourning and so its importance is self-evident. It is almost impossible to narrate within such a small framework, the wide range of splendid truths scattered in the pages of this noble puranam. Little information is available from internal evidence to establish its exact period. However, it is supposed to be quite ancient in its origin.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Varanasi Subhose |
Author | Pitta Srinivas |
Author | Ala Narayana |
Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 83-92 |
Date | 2005 Jul-Dec |
Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
ISSN | 0304-9558 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17333665 |
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Pharmaceutical is one of the allied branches of science, which is closely associated with Medical science. Today pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy are playing important role in treatment for a disease and its prevention. Herbal medicines are being used by about 80% of the world population mostly in the developing countries in the primary health care. There has been an upsurge in demand for the Phyto-pharmaceutical products of Ayurveda in western nations, because of the fact that the synthetic drugs are considered to be unsafe. Due to this many national and multinational pharmaceutical companies are now concentrating on manufacturing of Ayurvedic Phyto-pharmaceutical products. Ayurveda is the Indian traditional system of medicine, which also deals about pharmaceutical science. The Ayurvedic knowledge of the pharmaceutical science is scattered in Ayurvedic classical texts. Saranghadhara Samhita, which is written by Saranghadhara, explain systematically about the information of the Ayurvedic pharmaceutical science and also updated it. Industrialized manufacturing of Ayurvedic dosage forms has brought in new challenges like deviation from basic concepts of medicine preparation. Saranghadhara Samrhita the devout text on pharmaceutics in Ayurveda comes handy to solve such problems, as the methods described are very lucid and easy to follow.
Type | Book |
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Author | Lawrence Sullivan |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Date | 1989 |
ISBN | 9780029237915 |
Short Title | Healing and restoring |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Betty Sutherland |
Publisher | Singing Dragon |
Date | 2011-06-15 |
ISBN | 1848190557 |
Short Title | Chi for Children |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:53:56 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:53:56 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Geoffrey Sutton |
Publication | Isis |
Volume | 72 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 375-392 |
Date | Sep., 1981 |
ISSN | 00211753 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/230256 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:31:02 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep., 1981 / Copyright © 1981 The History of Science Society |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Dennis Tedlock |
Editor | Barbara Tedlock |
Edition | 1st ed |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Liveright |
Date | 1975 |
ISBN | 0871405597 |
Short Title | Teachings from the American Earth |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | E98.R3 T42 1975 |
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This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens’s “Career of the Medicine Man”. The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf’s “American Indian Model of the Universe” and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian’s stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled “The Clown’s Way” and “An American Indian View of Death”.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Urmila Thatte |
Author | Supriya Bhalerao |
Publication | Indian Journal of Phamacology |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | Supp. 1 |
Pages | S10-S12 |
Date | 2008-2-1 |
Journal Abbr | Indian J Pharmacol |
URL | http://www.ijp-online.com/article.asp? issn=0253-7613;year=2008;volume=40;issue=7;spage=10;epage=12;aulast=Thatte |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | L E Thomas |
Publication | Social Science & Medicine (1982) |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 499-505 |
Date | Mar 1992 |
Journal Abbr | Soc Sci Med |
ISSN | 0277-9536 |
Short Title | Identity, ideology and medicine |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/1604356 |
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In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older. Despite having taken vows renouncing concern for physical pain or comfort, respondents differed markedly in their attitudes toward pain and their rationale for utilizing medical treatment. They differed still further in their use of Ayurvedic and allopathic medicine, with the most culturally conservative accepting only Ayurvedic medicine. Rejection of allopathic medicine tended to be associated with a highly systematized religious world-view. The results are discussed in terms of both the ideological conflict between religious world-view and medical usage, and the need for sophisticated distinction of religious world-view if research on the religious factor of health care utilization is to prove fruitful.
Type | Book |
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Author | Nicholas Thomas |
Place | Ann Arbor |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Date | 1994 |
ISBN | 9780472105120 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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The literature on shamanism and related topics is extensive, but has in general been biased toward curing and trance; the political and historical significance of shamanic activities has been largely neglected. The contributors to Shamanism, History, and the State--distinguished anthropologists and historians from England, Australia, and France--show that shamanism is not static and stable, but always changing as a result of political dynamics and historical processes.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Y B Tripathi |
Publication | Indian Journal of Experimental Biology |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 409-414 |
Date | May 2000 |
Journal Abbr | Indian J. Exp. Biol |
ISSN | 0019-5189 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11272402 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 2:40:42 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
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In ayurvedic system of medicine, it is considered that a living system is made of panch-mahabuta, in the form of Vata, pitta and kapha at the physical level and satwa, raja and tama at the mental level. This covers the psychosomatic constitution and commonly known as the Tridosh theory. The imbalance in these body humours is the basic cause of any type of disease manifestation. Till date, several objective parameters have been proposed to monitor the level of these basic humours but none of them is complete. In this exercise, now it is proposed to consider free radical theory of diseases as one of the objective parameters. To be more specific, vata can be monitored in terms of membrane bound signal transduction, pitta as the process of phosphorylation and de-phosphorylation of different proteins (signalling moieties and enzymes) and kapha can be viewed as the degree of gene expression as protein synthesis. This can be correlated with the ojas of the body or total body defence mechanism.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | R Shane Tubbs |
Author | Marios Loukas |
Author | Mohammadali M Shoja |
Author | Mohammad Ardalan |
Author | W Jerry Oakes |
Publication | Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 314-317 |
Date | Sep 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Neurosurg Spine |
ISSN | 1547-5654 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18928231 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:20:54 PM |
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The 11th century was culturally and medicinally one of the most exciting periods in the history of Islam. Medicine of this day was influenced by the Greeks, Indians, Persians, Coptics, and Syriacs. One of the most prolific writers of this period was Ibn Jazlah, who resided in Baghdad in the district of Karkh. Ibn Jazlah made many important observations regarding diseases of the brain and spinal cord. These contributions and a review of the life and times of this early Muslim physician are presented.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Okan Turgut |
Author | Kenan Yalta |
Author | Izzet Tandogan |
Abstract | The main source of all inspirational knowledge in Islam is indeed the Holy Qur'an. The verses of the Qur'an as well as the Hadeeth and Sunnah literature have also accumulated a number of teachings and practices in relation to cardiovascular medicine. Islam is actually a comprehensive system of life, which provides mankind with the best forms of balance between the mundane and the spiritual. Early era of Islamic medicine has generated some very famous and notable physicians. The greatest physician of this era was Avicenna who devoted a substantial section of his classic magnum opus, the Canon of Medicine, to cardiovascular disorders. The empirical guidelines and principles of the Qur'an and Sunnah might contribute to the understanding and evaluation of various disturbances of the heart and vessels. Islamic legacy will still continue to inspire the contemporary cardiology in investigating cardiovascular diseases. |
Publication | International Journal of Cardiology |
Date | Oct 24, 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Int. J. Cardiol |
DOI | 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.09.470 |
ISSN | 1874-1754 |
Short Title | Islamic legacy of cardiology |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19857908 |
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The main source of all inspirational knowledge in Islam is indeed the Holy Qur’an. The verses of the Qur’an as well as the Hadeeth and Sunnah literature have also accumulated a number of teachings and practices in relation to cardiovascular medicine. Islam is actually a comprehensive system of life, which provides mankind with the best forms of balance between the mundane and the spiritual. Early era of Islamic medicine has generated some very famous and notable physicians. The greatest physician of this era was Avicenna who devoted a substantial section of his classic magnum opus, the Canon of Medicine, to cardiovascular disorders. The empirical guidelines and principles of the Qur’an and Sunnah might contribute to the understanding and evaluation of various disturbances of the heart and vessels. Islamic legacy will still continue to inspire the contemporary cardiology in investigating cardiovascular diseases.
Type | Book |
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Author | Manfred Ullmann |
Series | Islamic surveys |
Series Number | 11 |
Place | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Date | 1978 |
ISBN | 0852243251 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | D199.3 |
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This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought. It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Nedim Unal |
Author | Omur Elcioglu |
Publication | Saudi Medical Journal |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 323-328 |
Date | Mar 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Saudi Med J |
ISSN | 0379-5284 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19271057 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:18:08 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19271057 |
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Ibn Al-Haitham (known as Alhazen in Latin [965 Basra, Iraq-1039, Cairo, Egypt]) was a scientist who played an important role in the middle age Islam world. He wrote many books and novels, but only 90 of them are known. His main book Kitab al-Manazir was translated into Western languages in the late twelfth century, and in the early thirteenth century. In this book, he formulated many hypotheses on optical science. The book, which is also known as Optic treasure (opticae thesaurus), affected many famous Western scientists. He became an authority until the seventeenth century in the Eastern and Western countries. Roger Bacon (1212-1294), who made radical changes in the Western optical traditions, reconfirmed Ibn Al-Haitham’s findings. Ibn al-Haitham began his book Kitab al-Manazir with the anatomy and physiology of the eye. He specifically described cornea, humor aqueous, lens, and corpus vitreum. He examined the effect of light on seeing. He caused changes in the prevailing ideas of his age, and suggested that light came from objects, not from the eye. He provided information regarding the optic nerve, retina, iris, and conjunctiva. He showed the system of the eye as a dioptric, and the relations between the parts of the eye. It is understood that he mastered all knowledge on the structure of the eye in his century. The best proof of this is the eye picture that he drew.
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul U Unschuld |
Place | Berkeley |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Date | 1985 |
ISBN | 0520050231 |
Short Title | Medicine in China |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R602 .U56 1985 |
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In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traces the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | John Urquhart |
Publication | BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) |
Volume | 332 |
Issue | 7533 |
Pages | 120 |
Date | Jan 14, 2006 |
Journal Abbr | BMJ |
DOI | 10.1136/bmj.332.7533.120-b |
ISSN | 1468-5833 |
Short Title | How Islam changed medicine |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16410600 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:35:04 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 16410600 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Kenneth Vaux |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1984 |
ISBN | 082450612X |
Short Title | Health and Medicine in the Reformed Tradition |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX9423.H43 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7216 |
Pages | 1050-1053 |
Date | Oct. 16, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186102 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:28:08 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 16, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7215 |
Pages | 973-976 |
Date | Oct. 9, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186035 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:27:07 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 9, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7218 |
Pages | 1176-1179 |
Date | Oct. 30, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186229 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:24:10 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 30, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7217 |
Pages | 1115-1118 |
Date | Oct. 23, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186167 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:27:22 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 23, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7221 |
Pages | 1346-1349 |
Date | Nov. 20, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186398 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:28:23 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. 20, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7219 |
Pages | 1254-1257 |
Date | Nov. 6, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186301 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:27:53 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. 6, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Robert Voeks |
Abstract | African-derived ethnomedical systems are visible elements of the New World cultural landscape. Rejected by Western medicine, African healing systems have survived and flourished in the Americas since the beginning of the slave trade. Historical introduction of African magico-medical systems, the social and economic factors that facilitated their survival, and the role of plant geography in their persistence are examined. Questions of origin, ethnomedical typology, religion, and syncretism, magic and power, and collective medicinal plant knowledge are considered. |
Publication | Geographical Review |
Volume | 83 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 66-78 |
Date | Jan., 1993 |
ISSN | 00167428 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/215381 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:05:15 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1993 / Copyright © 1993 American Geographical Society |
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African-derived ethnomedical systems are visible elements of the New World cultural landscape. Rejected by Western medicine, African healing systems have survived and flourished in the Americas since the beginning of the slave trade. Historical introduction of African magico-medical systems, the social and economic factors that facilitated their survival, and the role of plant geography in their persistence are examined. Questions of origin, ethnomedical typology, religion, and syncretism, magic and power, and collective medicinal plant knowledge are considered.
Type | Book |
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Author | Virgil J. Vogel |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Date | 1990-09 |
ISBN | 0806122935 |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Nancy Vuckovic |
Author | Jennifer Schneider |
Author | Louise A. Williams |
Author | Michelle Ramirez |
Abstract | Objective To evaluate participants' perceptions of illness, healing process, and experience of effects from shamanic treatment as reported from in-depth interviews.Theoretical Framework Consistent with a whole systems research model, qualitative methods were used to evaluate the outcomes and experiences of clinical trial participants. Quantitative results are reported elsewhere.Method Twenty participants completed five visits with a randomly assigned shamanic practitioner and completed pretreatment and posttreatment in-depth interviews conducted by trained, qualitative researchers.Context Some physical and psychological symptoms associated with temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) may be indicative of the shamanic definition of soul loss. Because this was the first clinical trial of shamanic healing for TMD pain, a mixed-methods approach enabled researchers to capture a wide range of participants' experiences.Participants Eligible volunteers were women aged between 25 to 55 years, naive to shamanic healing, with a confirmed diagnosis of TMD and a pain level of three or higher on the Research Diagnostic Criteria Axis II questionnaire.Data Collection For consistency, interviewers followed a guide that allowed individual experiences to emerge. Interviews lasted about one hour, were recorded, and professionally transcribed.Analysis and Interpretation Following standard qualitative analysis procedures, researchers developed and applied thematic codes to transcribed text of interviews. Coded text was reviewed to generate summaries of thematic content.Main Results Although participants described physical changes, three times as much text was devoted to changes in self-awareness, capacity for coping, improvement in relationships, and taking better care of themselves. Their experience describes a process of transformation. |
Publication | EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 371-379 |
Date | November |
DOI | 10.1016/j.explore.2010.08.005 |
ISSN | 1550-8307 |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B7MF9-51BY623-B/2/1446fb4026902b55074f16f8537653a8 |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Gloria Martha Waite |
Place | Lewiston, N.Y |
Publisher | E. Mellen Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0773497072 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R653.Z33 W35 1992 |
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This study reconstructs the medical history of people in eastern Zambia and the Kilombero valley in south-central Tanzania over a period of about 2000 years. It is based on written and personal interviews.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | James B. Waldram |
Abstract | The efficacy of traditional medicine is an issue that continues to vex medical anthropology. This article critically examines how the efficacy of traditional medicine has been conceived, operationalized, and studied and argues that a consensus remains elusive. Efficacy must be seen as fluid and shifting, the product of a negotiated, but not necessarily shared, understanding by those involved in the sickness episode, including physicians/healers, patients, and members of the community. Medical anthropology needs to return to the field to gather more data on indigenous understandings of efficacy to counteract the biases inherent in the utilization of biomedical understandings and methods characteristic of much previous work. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 603-625 |
Date | Dec., 2000 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
Short Title | The Efficacy of Traditional Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/649723 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:57:59 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Theme Issue: Ritual Healing in Navajo Society / Full publication date: Dec., 2000 / Copyright © 2000 American Anthropological Association |
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The efficacy of traditional medicine is an issue that continues to vex medical anthropology. This article critically examines how the efficacy of traditional medicine has been conceived, operationalized, and studied and argues that a consensus remains elusive. Efficacy must be seen as fluid and shifting, the product of a negotiated, but not necessarily shared, understanding by those involved in the sickness episode, including physicians/healers, patients, and members of the community. Medical anthropology needs to return to the field to gather more data on indigenous understandings of efficacy to counteract the biases inherent in the utilization of biomedical understandings and methods characteristic of much previous work.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Roger Walsh |
Publication | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
Volume | 65 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 101-124 |
Date | Spring, 1997 |
ISSN | 00027189 |
Short Title | The Psychological Health of Shamans |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1465820 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:29:04 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Spring, 1997 / Copyright © 1997 American Academy of Religion |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Margaret P Wardlaw |
Abstract | Modern medicine serves a religious function for modern Americans as a conduit through which science can be applied directly to the human body. The first half of this paper will focus on the theoretical foundations for viewing medicine as a religious practice arguing that just as a hierarchical structured authoritarian church historically mediated access to God, contemporary Western medicine provides a conduit by which the universalizable truths of science can be applied to the human being thereby functioning as a new established religion. I will then illustrate the many parallels between medicine and religion through an analysis of rituals and symbols surrounding and embedded within the modern practice of medicine. This analysis will pay special attention to the primacy placed on secret interior knowledge of the human body. I will end by responding to the hope for a "secularization of American medicine," exploring some of the negative consequences of secularization, and arguing that, rather than seeking to secularize, American medicine should strive to use its religious features to offer hope and healing to the sick, in keeping with its historically religious legacy. |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 62-74 |
Date | Mar 2011 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-010-9320-4 |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
Short Title | American medicine as religious practice |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20094797 |
Accessed | Monday, April 04, 2011 7:48:36 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20094797 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:56:31 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:56:31 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Walter I. Wardwell |
Publication | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 175-181 |
Date | Spring, 1965 |
ISSN | 00218294 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1384135 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:17:46 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Spring, 1965 / Copyright © 1965 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | John Warner |
Place | Cambridge Mass. |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 9780674883307 |
Short Title | The therapeutic perspective |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Stephen Weatherhead |
Author | Anna Daiches |
Publication | Psychology and Psychotherapy |
Date | Sep 4, 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Psychol Psychother |
DOI | 10.1348/147608309X467807 |
ISSN | 1476-0835 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19735608 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 1:10:10 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19735608 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:47:29 AM |
Objectives: The aim of this research was to explore with a heterogeneous Muslim population their understanding of the concept of mental health and how any mental distress experienced by an individual can best be addressed. Design: A qualitative approach was taken. Participants were interviewed, and data analysed thematically. Methods: A sample of 14 Muslims was interviewed according to a semi-structured interview schedule. Participants were recruited via electronic mailing lists, and communications with local Muslim organizations. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Thematic analysis identified seven operationalizing themes that were given the labels ‘causes’, ‘problem management’, ‘relevance of services’, ‘barriers’, ‘service delivery’, ‘therapy content’, and ‘therapist characteristics’. Conclusions: The results highlight the interweaving of religious and secular perspectives on mental distress and responses to it. Potential barriers are discussed, as are the important characteristics of therapy, therapists, and service provision. Clinical implications are presented along with the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | David L. Weddle |
Publication | The Harvard Theological Review |
Volume | 84 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 273-297 |
Date | Jul., 1991 |
ISSN | 00178160 |
Short Title | The Christian Science Textbook |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1510020 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:21:04 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul., 1991 / Copyright © 1991 Cambridge University Press and Harvard Divinity School |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ian Whicher |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 272-322 |
Date | Apr., 1998 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
Short Title | Yoga and Freedom |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1399829 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:07:45 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Apr., 1998 / Copyright © 1998 University of Hawai'i Press |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:39:44 PM |
Rather than follow along the lines of many scholarly interpretations of Patañjali’s “Yoga-Sutra,” which views Yoga as a radical separation or isolation of “spirit” or pure consciousness (purusa) from “matter” (prakrti), this essay suggests that the “Yoga-Sutra” seeks to “unite” or integrate these two principles by correcting a basic misalignment between them. Yoga thus does not advocate the abandonment or condemnation of the world, but supports a stance that enables one to live more fully in the world without being enslaved by worldly identification.
Type | Book |
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Author | James C Whorton |
Place | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 2002 |
# of Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 0195140710 |
Short Title | Nature Cures |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R733 .W495 2002 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Esteemed medical historian Dr. James C. Whorton seeks to bring light to the flourishing of complementary and alternative medicine and provide its rich historical context in Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America. Whorton packs his book with historical information, primary research, detailed analysis, and the occasional apt poem to blend the diverse sections together into a comprehensive textbook that is both illuminating and accessible. It is a treasure for anyone, scholarly or not, who wants to learn about CAM, its history, and its place within American culture. While he seems to have fun with some of the more peculiar aspects of alternative medicine and its history, Whorton has a strong sympathy with the underlying worldview of CAM.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jordan Wicker |
Author | Kenneth Kamler |
Abstract | This review covers historical perspectives of regeneration biology and current research regarding human extremity tissue regeneration. With a greater understanding of the mechanisms involved in regeneration, cognitive-behavioral practices such as meditation and yoga may assist in achieving regeneration. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 95-109 |
Date | 08/2009 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04413.x |
ISSN | 00778923 |
Accessed | Friday, February 04, 2011 10:44:51 AM |
Library Catalog | CrossRef |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:38 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:38 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Ted C Williams |
Series | The Iroquois and their neighbors |
Edition | 1st ed |
Place | Syracuse, N.Y |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Date | 2007 |
ISBN | 9780815608639 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | E99.T9 W55 2007 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Robin L. Wilson |
Publication | The American Journal of Nursing |
Volume | 76 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 261-263 |
Date | Feb., 1976 |
ISSN | 0002936X |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3423818 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:05:28 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1976 / Copyright © 1976 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Michael Winkelman |
Edition | 2nd ed. |
Place | Santa Barbara Calif. |
Publisher | Praeger |
Date | 2010 |
ISBN | 9780313381812 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:03:07 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:03:07 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Alison Winter |
Place | Chicago |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 9780226902197 |
Short Title | Mesmerized |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Albrecht H K Wobst |
Abstract | Hypnosis has been defined as the induction of a subjective state in which alterations of perception or memory can be elicited by suggestion. Ever since the first public demonstrations of "animal magnetism" by Mesmer in the 18th century, the use of this psychological tool has fascinated the medical community and public alike. The application of hypnosis to alter pain perception and memory dates back centuries. Yet little progress has been made to fully comprehend or appreciate its potential compared to the pharmacologic advances in anesthesiology. Recently, hypnosis has aroused interest, as hypnosis seems to complement and possibly enhance conscious sedation. Contemporary clinical investigators claim that the combination of analgesia and hypnosis is superior to conventional pharmacologic anesthesia for minor surgical cases, with patients and surgeons responding favorably. Simultaneously, basic research of pain pathways involving the nociceptive flexion reflex and positron emission tomography has yielded objective data regarding the physiologic correlates of hypnosis. In this article I review the history, basic scientific and clinical studies, and modern practical considerations of one of the oldest therapeutical tools: the power of suggestion. |
Publication | Anesthesia and Analgesia |
Volume | 104 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 1199-1208 |
Date | May 2007 |
Journal Abbr | Anesth. Analg |
DOI | 10.1213/01.ane.0000260616.49050.6d |
ISSN | 1526-7598 |
Short Title | Hypnosis and surgery |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17456675 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:41:51 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 17456675 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Hypnosis has been defined as the induction of a subjective state in which alterations of perception or memory can be elicited by suggestion. Ever since the first public demonstrations of “animal magnetism” by Mesmer in the 18th century, the use of this psychological tool has fascinated the medical community and public alike. The application of hypnosis to alter pain perception and memory dates back centuries. Yet little progress has been made to fully comprehend or appreciate its potential compared to the pharmacologic advances in anesthesiology. Recently, hypnosis has aroused interest, as hypnosis seems to complement and possibly enhance conscious sedation. Contemporary clinical investigators claim that the combination of analgesia and hypnosis is superior to conventional pharmacologic anesthesia for minor surgical cases, with patients and surgeons responding favorably. Simultaneously, basic research of pain pathways involving the nociceptive flexion reflex and positron emission tomography has yielded objective data regarding the physiologic correlates of hypnosis. In this article I review the history, basic scientific and clinical studies, and modern practical considerations of one of the oldest therapeutical tools: the power of suggestion.
Type | Book |
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Author | Michael Wood |
Contributor | David Coulson |
Edition | 1st American ed |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Clarkson N. Potter |
Date | 1987 |
ISBN | 0517566559 |
Short Title | Different Drums |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA996.55.K4 W66 1987 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Justin Woodman |
Publication | Anthropology Today |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 23-24 |
Date | Dec., 1998 |
ISSN | 0268540X |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2783241 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:50:13 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Dec., 1998 / Copyright © 1998 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Peter Worsley |
Publication | Annual Review of Anthropology |
Volume | 11 |
Pages | 315-348 |
Date | 1982 |
ISSN | 00846570 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2155785 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:37:25 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1982 / Copyright © 1982 Annual Reviews |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Jo Thobeka Wreford |
Series | Epistemologies of healing |
Series Number | v. 3 |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 9781845454760 |
Short Title | Working with Spirit |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | GR358 .W74 2008 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga, and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author s personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a language of spirit by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe and biomedicine in South Africa.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jian Xu |
Publication | The Journal of Asian Studies |
Volume | 58 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 961-991 |
Date | Nov., 1999 |
ISSN | 00219118 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2658492 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:53:25 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov., 1999 / Copyright © 1999 Association for Asian Studies |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Roland Zahn |
Author | Jorge Moll |
Author | Mirella Paiva |
Author | Griselda Garrido |
Author | Frank Krueger |
Author | Edward D Huey |
Author | Jordan Grafman |
Abstract | Social values are composed of social concepts (e.g., "generosity") and context-dependent moral sentiments (e.g., "pride"). The neural basis of this intricate cognitive architecture has not been investigated thus far. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging while subjects imagined their own actions toward another person (self-agency) which either conformed or were counter to a social value and were associated with pride or guilt, respectively. Imagined actions of another person toward the subjects (other-agency) in accordance with or counter to a value were associated with gratitude or indignation/anger. As hypothesized, superior anterior temporal lobe (aTL) activity increased with conceptual detail in all conditions. During self-agency, activity in the anterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex correlated with pride and guilt, whereas activity in the subgenual cingulate solely correlated with guilt. In contrast, indignation/anger activated lateral orbitofrontal-insular cortices. Pride and gratitude additionally evoked mesolimbic and basal forebrain activations. Our results demonstrate that social values emerge from coactivation of stable abstract social conceptual representations in the superior aTL and context-dependent moral sentiments encoded in fronto-mesolimbic regions. This neural architecture may provide the basis of our ability to communicate about the meaning of social values across cultural contexts without limiting our flexibility to adapt their emotional interpretation. |
Publication | Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 276-283 |
Date | Feb 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Cereb. Cortex |
DOI | 10.1093/cercor/bhn080 |
ISSN | 1460-2199 |
Short Title | The neural basis of human social values |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18502730 |
Accessed | Monday, March 28, 2011 6:29:00 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18502730 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:06:18 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:06:18 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Mei Zhan |
Publication | Cultural Anthropology |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 453-480 |
Date | Nov., 2001 |
ISSN | 08867356 |
Short Title | Does It Take a Miracle? |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/656646 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:51:19 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Anthropology and/in/of Science / Full publication date: Nov., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 American Anthropological Association |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Daqing Zhang |
Author | Zhifan Cheng |
Publication | The Hastings Center Report |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | S8-S12 |
Date | Jul. - Aug., 2000 |
ISSN | 00930334 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3527656 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:52:19 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul. - Aug., 2000 / Copyright © 2000 The Hastings Center |
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The value system of medical ethics in China has a long tradition that can be traced back to ancient times. Those values are reflected in the (Confucian) precept that “medicine is a humane art.” That is, medicine is not only a means to save people’s lives, but also a moral commitment to love people and free them from suffering through personal caring and medical treatment. Although this precept has been well accepted as the basic principle of professional ethics as general principle that emphasizes doctors’ self-accomplishment and self-restraint, there has never been a universally accepted professional code and binding principles in Chinese medicine comparable to the Hippocratic Oath in western medicine.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Catherine Zollman |
Author | Andrew Vickers |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7211 |
Pages | 693-696 |
Date | Sep. 11, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25185762 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:21:00 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep. 11, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Catherine Zollman |
Author | Andrew Vickers |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7224 |
Pages | 1558-1561 |
Date | Dec. 11, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186616 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:29:04 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Dec. 11, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Catherine Zollman |
Author | Andrew Vickers |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7213 |
Pages | 836-838 |
Date | Sep. 25, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25185898 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:28:42 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep. 25, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Kenneth G Zysk |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 1991 |
ISBN | 0195059565 |
Short Title | Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R605 .Z87 1991 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. Zysk shows that the Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and Susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kenneth G. Zysk |
Publication | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |
Volume | 75 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | i-311 |
Date | 1985 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 00659746 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/20486646 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:43:46 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1985 / Copyright © 1985 American Philosophical Society |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kenneth G. Zysk |
Publication | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
Volume | 113 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 198-213 |
Date | Apr. - Jun., 1993 |
ISSN | 00030279 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/603025 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:20:31 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Apr. - Jun., 1993 / Copyright © 1993 American Oriental Society |
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The following historical and philological study traces the science of respiration and the doctrine of the bodily winds through ancient Indian religious and technical literature. Basic notions about respiration and bodily winds appear in the literature of the vedic samhitas and brahmanas. By the end of the principal upanisads these early ideas begin to be codified into two separate systems. One, emphasizing a physiology of bodily winds, reaches its traditional formulation in the classical medical literature of Ayurveda, the other, focusing on respiration, attains its classical formulation in Yoga. The two unite later, when Yoga integrates medical theory into its science of respiration. Asceticism is the common thread connecting the various stages in the development of respiration and bodily winds.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kenneth G. Zysk |
Publication | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
Volume | 106 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 687-705 |
Date | Oct. - Dec., 1986 |
ISSN | 00030279 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/603532 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:34:24 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. - Dec., 1986 / Copyright © 1986 American Oriental Society |
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Ludwig Edelstein’s study of the history of Greek anatomy will be used as a model to examine the evolution of anatomical knowledge in ancient India. The earliest evidence of Indian anatomy is found in the Vedic literature, dating from 1500 B. C. to 200 B. C. It provides a clear picture of the acquisition of anatomical knowledge by means of the sacrifice of animals, principally the horse, and of men; chance observations contributed a comparatively small amount to the body of anatomical knowledge. As a result of these sacrificial rites quite accurate lists of bodily structures of the horse and of man have been recorded and transmitted by means of the traditional religious texts. These catalogues remained the principal sources of anatomy until the first centuries of the Christian era, when we find a codification of Indian medical knowledge in the surgical text, Susruta Saṃhitā. Isolated in a chapter on anatomy, a new approach to the study of the bodily parts is recommended: in order to acquire the most complete understanding of the human body the author prescribes that first-hand observation of the parts should be combined with textual learning and proceeds to detail the correct method to dissect a cadaver. This precept, reflecting a characteristically non-Indian attitude, may well have had its origin in the Alexandrian school of medicine, in particular in the teachings of Herophilus in the first half of the third century B. C. The instruction which added a wholly new dimension to Indian anatomical thought could have been transmitted to India around the time of Alexander. As in the Hellenistic world, scientific dissection was not readily accepted by the Indian medical community and its practice quickly vanished. During the short time it was known and performed in India, some advances seem to have been made in the understanding of the inner parts of the human body, increasing the store-house of anatomical knowledge already possessed by the Indian physicians. A similar technique of dissection is detailed in the twelfth century Salernitan anatomical text, Anatomia magistri Nicolai phisici. This remarkable occurrence poses questions, the answers to which cannot be definitely given until more evidence becomes available. The paper concludes with a critical translation of chapter five on the “enumeration and distinction of the bodily parts” in the book of anatomy of the Susruta Samhita.