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The influence of traditional medicine in shaping medical care practices in Vietnam today
Social science & medicine • 25 (10) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 1105-1110
By: Ladinsky, Judith L., Volk, Nancy D., Robinson, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses how traditional medical beliefs and practices have shaped the practice of health care in Vietnam. It argues that one must have a knowledge of and appreciation for traditional medical beliefs and practices if one is to understand each nation's particular adaptation to a modern health care system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Diet
- Pharmaceuticals
- Administrative agencies
- External relations
- Medical research
- Hospitals and clinics
- Public health and sanitation
- Preventive medicine
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Medical therapy
- Medical care
- Medical personnel
- Ethnoanatomy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1300-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- Judith L. Ladinsky, Nancy D. Volk, Margaret Robinson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1110)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82643975
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese