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Traditional Knowledge and Medicine
Objectives
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History of Herbal Use in the U.S.
Drugs Commonly Encountered from Plants
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The movement to purify medicine preceeds a shift in medical thinking
Differences in theory of disease
Differences in theory of disease
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Germ theory has predominated
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Prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Traditional Medicine
Prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Developing Countries
Definition of Alternative Medicine
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What is Integrative Medicine?
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Risk in conventional pharmacology : Primum non nocere “Do no harm”
Integration of CAM and Indigenous Medical Systems in Biomedicine
CAM Use in Urban Settings
CAM Use in New York
Spiraling Healthcare Costs
What is Traditional Medicine?
Strength of Traditional Medicine
Why is Traditional Medicine Important to Bio-medicine/ conventional Medicine ?
Why is Traditional Medicine Important to Bio-medicine?
Ethnomedicine Fellowship Training Program 2007
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Primary Health Care Manual
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Future Applications of the Primary Healthcare Manual with Pohnpei Health Service --- INTEGRATION OF ALL MEDICAL SYSTEMS
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Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine: can ask other questions such as...
Ethnobotany homework assignment
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Step 1
What is health?
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What is unhealthy?
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Author:
Dr. Roberta Lee
Homepage:
http://www.healthandhealingny.org/