SOCIOL 3G03 Lecture Notes - Traditional Medicine, Alternative Medicine, National Center For Complementary And Integrative Health
15 Apr 2014
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Traditional indigenous healing has become popular due to: new age health movement, increase in appeal of holistic medicine, increase in cams use, various group and organizations now placing increased importance on examining this healing methodology. 2000 national centre for cam (nccam) announces need for studies to: establish the methodological feasibility and scientific rationale for conducting full scare rct on use of traditional, indigenous systems of medicine in us. Early eu literature (1800-1900s) on traditional indigenous healing: includes descriptions of various customary practices. Early north american historians of religion and anthropologists: focused on indigenous concepts of supernatural healing, however, discussions reflected scholar"s own theory of religion, get varying eu interpretations of indigenous healing. Information on contemporary indigenous medical practices is scarce: many aspects of indigenous healing has never been documented, and may never will. Formal (eu) research into indigenous healing ceremonies are limited.
