Medicine And Disease Among Eskimos

Description: 

Eskimo healing centers around the shaman. In order to be fully understood, however, Eskimo medicine has to be examined against the background of Eskimo life and history in connection with the whole of Eskimo culture and especially Eskimo religion. In disease, the Eskimo does not so much suffer from discomfort as from fear. Photos. Bibliography. Sketches.

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Death, Demographics, Diseases, Mental/Emotional, Miscellaneous, Tribal Actions, Women/Children
Original Date: 
1948
Creator: 
Ackerknecht, Eh
Language: 
English
Rights: 
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Source: 
Ciba Symp; Ackerknecht, EH. Medicine and disease among Eskimos. Ciba Symp 1948;10:916-21.
Identifier: 
9901767
Subject: 
Common Cold, Communicable Diseases, Cultural Characteristics, Death Rate, Diet, Food Poisoning, Hysteria, Infant Mortality, Magic, Mental Disorders, Mortality, Nutrition, Shamanism, Trichinosis, Witchcraft
Type: 
Monograph