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Village doctors: a national telephone survey of Bangladesh’s lay medical practitioners
BackgroundBangladesh outperforms its Least Developed Country (LDC) status on a range of health measures including life expectancy. Its frontline...
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Aboriginal medicinal plants of Queensland: ethnopharmacological uses, species diversity, and biodiscovery pathways
BackgroundAboriginal peoples have occupied the island continent of Australia for millennia. Over 500 different clan groups or nations with...
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Religion in Motion: Continuities and Symbolic Affinities in Religion and Sport
One of the major transformations in religion in contemporary societies has been the decline of church institutions and their reconstruction within a...
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On TB Vaccines, Patients’ Demands, and Modern Printed Media in Times of Biomedical Uncertainties: Buenos Aires, 1920–1950
Reconstructing some of the experiences of people living with tuberculosis in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century, as reflected not...
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Use and valuation of native and introduced medicinal plant species in Campo Hermoso and Zetaquira, Boyacá, Colombia
BackgroundMedicinal plant species contribute significantly to folk medicine in Colombia. However, few local studies have investigated whether species...
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Tattoos: forensic considerations
Tattooing refers to marking of the skin by puncturing and introducing pigmented material. Although it derives from a Polynesian word, tautau ,...
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Inner Night and Inner Light: A Quaker Model of Pastoral Care for the Mentally Ill
The same theological principles that motivated Quakers in institutional reform work continue to influence uniquely Quaker approaches to pastoral care...
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Snakebites in the Rainforests of Ecuador
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Epidemiologic information about snakebites in Ecuador is scarce. Snakebites are more common in the lowlands east of the Andes, in the Amazon...
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Debating point
This article analyses the viewpoints of doctors, patients and the state of the phenomenon of unconventional methods of treatment/alternative medicine...
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America's First Medical Malpractice Crisis, 1835–1865
Prior to the early 1800's, medical malpractice was almost unknown in the United States. However, a large number of malpractice law suits inundated...
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Superfluous people in tomorrow’s society
This paper looks to a future in which society makes creative use of “superfluous” people.
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Magician accuses faith healers of hoax
Discussions of faith healing have traditionally focused on the persuasiveness of the healer and the receptivity of the audience. Recently magician...