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Totemic medicine among the American Indians of the northwest coast.
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Patient Educ Couns. 1995 Sep;26(1-3):159-67
Publication Type
Article
Date
Sep-1995
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Author
S W Gunn
Source
Patient Educ Couns. 1995 Sep;26(1-3):159-67
Date
Sep-1995
Language
English
Publication Type
Article
Keywords
Alaska
Attitude to Health - ethnology
British Columbia
Humans
Indians, North American
Medicine, Traditional
Yukon Territory
Abstract
A description is presented of the medical beliefs of the totemic people on the Northwest American coast. The principles of Shamanic therapy are analysed. The consequences for therapeutic views by medical schools are discussed.
PubMed ID
7494716
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