Medical Anthropology and Traditional Medicines
10.3937/kampomed.59.17
- Author:
Emiko NAMIHIRA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
medical anthropology;
variety of human cultures;
traditional medical systems
- MeSH:
seconds;
Medical;
Anthropological;
Medicine, Traditional;
Anthropology
- From:Kampo Medicine
2008;59(1):17-23
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
From the medical anthropology's point of view, biomedicine is only one of the vaious medicines which human beings have developed through their long history though it is extremely systematic and universal. Medical anthropology has been studying various types of traditional medicines in order to evaluate relatively biomedicine.
