Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 405-423

  Baer, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical physicians interest in Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM); Biomedicine, referring to itself as scientific medicine; Charles Leslie and medical pluralism organizational skills, symposium convenor and editor; Cultural interpretivism, the medical ecology and critical medical anthropology; Folk sector, encompassing healers of various sorts functioning informally on quasi legal basis; Indigenous or tribal societies, more or less coherent medical system integral part of larger socio cultural system; Japanese religious institutions catering to health care needs; Leslie, recognizing that medical pluralism an ancient phenomenon; Medical ecologists, or medical anthropologists biocultural perspective, grappling with medical pluralism; Medical pluralism, evolving and contested concept in medical anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885540143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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