Both of these books deal with folk medicine but whereas American folk medicine is a collection of 1973 conference papers edited by Professor Hand, Magical medicine is a collection of his own selected essays covering essentially the last decade. The basic tenet of both is that the idea of "medicine" is differentially interpreted and defined according to social, historical, religious, and cultura...

Bu çalışma kazak halk hekimliği üzerine Kazakistan ve Rusya’da yapılan çalışmaların açıklamalı kaynakça denemesidir. Makalede kitaplar, kitap bölümü, makaleler, tez çalışmalar taranmış, elde edilen bilgilere kısaca bibliyografya şeklinde yayın yılına göre sıralanıp verilmiştir. Halk Rus yabancı araştırmacıların çalışmaları dahil yerli da tespit edilmiştir. Makalemizde bilimsel araştırmalara yer...

Traditional medicinal uses for various human diseases of 54 angiospermic species from Shegaon, Sangrampur, Jalgaon (Jamod), Malkapur, Nandura, Motala and Khamgaon tehsils of Buldhana district (Maharashtra) are reported. Of these, applications of 36 species are unknown or little known. The folk medicines consist of a sole drug or a principal drug in combination with other drugs. The recent botan...

There are different approaches to teaching the history of medicine in different countries. Teaching the history of medicine in Georgia is bound to its traditional medicine. Georgian medicine originated at the crossroads of the East and West and thus integrates the principles of both medical traditions. The Research Department of the History of Georgian Medicine and Traditional Medicine at Exper...