Different Truths Ethnomedicine in Early Postcards

Name: Different Truths Ethnomedicine in Early Postcards
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ISBN: 9789460220173

ISBN-10: 9460220177

ISBN-13: 9789460220173

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter de Smet

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Royal Tropical Institute Press (KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen)
Publication date: 3/24/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

Peter de Smet is a senior Dutch clinical pharmacologist, who works as research leader at the Scientific Institute Dutch Pharmacists (The Hague) and is a professor in the Quality of Pharmaceutical Care at the Academic Medical Centre of the Radboud University (Nijmegen).




Prelude



Ethnomedicine



Mode of Collecting



Preceding Books



Different Truths



Reading Guide



Postcards



Golden Era



Different Meanings



Photographers, Publishers and Sponsors



Depicted Subjects



Senders and Early Collectors



Exhibition Postcards



Native Descendents



Present Buyers



Researchers and Curators



Documentary Value



Caveats



Practitioners and Practices



Different Perspectives



Native Concepts of Illness



Self Care



Healers Around the World



Diagnostic Methods



Native Therapies



Supernatural Methods of Treatment



Material Holders of Power



Natural Methods of Treatment



Physical Methods



Herbal Medicine



Surgery



Midwifery



Animal Care



Professionalized Systems



Different Health Care Sectors



South Asian Traditions



East Asian Traditions



Western Traditions



Colonial Medicine



Colonial Public Health Care



Missionary Health Care



Famine and Pestilence



Conspicuous Symptoms



Postscript



Final Thoughts About Colonial Postcards



Final Thoughts About Ethnomedicine