Health, healers, and healing
Subtitle: studies in medical anthropology
By: edited by Sarthak Sengupta.
Contributors: Sengupta, Sarthak, 1955-
Publisher: N.L. Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dibrugarh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Medical anthropology -- India.
Description: Contributed articles in the Indian context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Biomedical Anthropolgy and Health; title: Status of the Tribal Muslim Gujjars of; title: Himachal Pradesh, India; title: - R. S. Balgir; title: 2. DemographicFeatures and Health Care; title: Practices in D TudhKhati STribal Population; title: of Siidargarh Distnct, ssdia; title: - Salil Basu and Gautam K, Kshatriva; title: 3. Healt ad Nutritional Scnald; title: Tribal Populatiqiui* 4h d - 1; title: -TilakBagchi; title: 4. Beliefs andiPractices Associated with Maternal; title: Morbidity During Preg cy, Delivey and; title: Postpartum Periods in Paliyan Tribe of; title: Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu.; title: - R. Rajkumar and Chellam Balasundaram; title: 5. The Onges of Little Andaman: Changes; title: Over Two Decades 9; title: - D. Hanumantha Rao; title: 6. Traditional Medicine Practices in Rural and; title: Tribal Areas in India 11; title: - Sushma Kulkarni and Aarti Kaulgekar; title: 7. Strategies for Combating Diseases in a Primitive Tribe 12; title: - R. M. Sarkar; title: 8. Druk Pa Concept of Diseases and Healing Systems 154; title: - S. B. Nandi; title: 9. Ethnomedical Profile of Gaddis 162; title: - Avanish Kumar; title: 10. RitualHealing: Metamedical Discourse and Discursive; title: Practices of a South Indian Nomadic Subcaste ,176; title: - S. Bhakthavatsala Bharathi; title: 11 .Cognition of Disease and CuringBehaiour in; title: Rural Bengal 196; title: - S.Maiti; title: 12.The Folk Concept of Illness id Traditional Medical; title: Practices in Assam 206; title: -K. C. Mahanta; title: 13. Indigenous Health ractices and System f Cure; title: Among the Tribes ofAssam Plains 239; title: - G. C. Sharma Thakur; title: 14. Rik-Khvan-MuL-Khin: :ACoin munity 'Hedling; title: Ritual Among the Ahom 250; title: -N. K. Gogoi; title: 15. Herbal Medicinesin Arunachal Pradesh' 258; title: - Y. P. Kohli; title: 16. Etiology and Medical System fLisus of; title: Arunachal Pradesh 265; title: - Asim Maitra.