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ethnomedicine, n.|ˌɛθnəʊˈmɛds(ə)n, -ˈmɛdɪsɪn|
[f. ethno- + medicine n.]
Traditional medicine as practised by a particular ethnic group; folk medicine; also, the study of the medical traditions and customs of various ethnic groups.
1972H. C. Conklin Folk Classification: Bibliogr. through 1971 363 Ethnomedicine. 1978Foster & Anderson Med. Anthropol. iv. 51 The curiosity of anthropologists about the medical beliefs and practices of the members of the traditional societies they have studied is the oldest of the ‘roots’ of medical anthropology. Ethnomedicine, the contemporary term for the vast body of knowledge that has resulted from this curiosity and the research methods used in adding to it, is of interest [etc.]. 1980Holistic Health News Sept./Oct. 9/2 Planet Medicine is neither a critique of current medicine such as Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis nor is it a handbook on tribal ethnomedicine, yet it covers both these territories. 1990Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry CLVI. 322/2 ‘Ethnoscience’ and ‘ethnomedicine’ are accounts and analyses of popular and lay understanding of the natural world and sickness. |