Maori Knowledge and Medical Science: The Interface between Psychiatry and Traditional Healing in New Zealand

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 237-249

  Durie, Mason ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Indigenous healing and biomedicine; Indigenous healing contributions to global mental health; Indigenous knowledge and science; Maori healing process structure; Maori knowledge and medical science interface between psychiatry and traditional healing in New Zealand; Principle of medical pluralism patients, consumers, should not be placed in position of having to choose between one approach or the other; Re emergence of traditional healing as contemporary health intervention; Traditional healing in contemporary New Zealand traditional methods among Maori

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874635952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470741054.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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