Medical anthropology

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Welcome Address to the Pre-Congress Conference on Medical Anthropology -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: NATIVE CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALING -- Introduction -- Witchcraft, the Shaman, and Active Pharmacopoeia -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Body and Spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes -- Social Basis of Illness: A Search for Therapeutic Meaning -- Snakebite Cure among the Rama Indians of Nicaragua -- The Traditional Folk Medicine of Taos, New Mexico -- Different Approaches to Medicine among Different People -- Post-Partum Salt Packing and Other Medical Practices: Oman, South Arabia -- SECTION TWO: SPECIFIC SUBJECT PAPERS -- Introduction -- The Incidence of Mental Illness among Italians in an English-Canadian City -- Warning: The Milk in This Package May Be Lethal for Your Infant -- Prehistoric Pictography in North America of Medical Significance -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Midwifery -- Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? -- The Use of Argillaceous Earth as Medicament -- SECTION THREE: INTERACTION OF TRADITIONAL AND WESTERN MEDICAL PRACTICES -- Introduction -- Human Factors in the Regulation of Parasitic Infections: Cultural Ecology of Hookworm Populations in Rural West Bengal -- Analysis of Incidence of Excessive Alcohol Intake by the Indian Population in Montana -- Witchcraft: An Allegory? -- The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town -- Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease -- Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru -- A Transubstantiated Health Clinic in Nepal: A Model for the Future.