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Last (1981) established the unsystemised nature of much 'traditional' healing, criticising the then current anthropological notions of traditional medicine as a classifiable system with coherent principles that could be counterpoised with biomedical understandings.
“Last (1981) had already established the unsystemised nature of much 'traditional' healing, criticising the then current anthropological notions of traditional medicine as a classifiable system, with coherent principles that could be counterpoised with biomedical understandings.”
From ‘Traditional’ Healers, Speaking and Motivation in Vava'u, Tonga: Explaining Syncretism and Addressing Health Policy (2010) · cites this paper as Last 1981
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- Authors
- Last, M.
- Corresponding author
- Last, Murray
- ORCID
- Last, Murray
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1981-07
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 387-392
- ISSN
- 0160-7987 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4255068754
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Science & Medicine Part B Medical Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Keywords
- uncertainty, clinical uncertainty, physician-patient communication
- MeSH terms
- Attitude to Health, Health Services Administration, Health Services, Indigenous, Humans, Medicine, Arabic, Medicine, Traditional, Nigeria, Patients
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