Concept information
Preferred term
ethnomedicine
Definition
- The nature and experience of affliction and the causes and consequences thereof vary from culture to culture and, over time, within a culture. Cultures have developed more or less organized approaches to understand and treat afflictions, and identify the agents, forces, or conditions believed responsible for them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Ethnomedicine]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KPMJ7674-2
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