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Author Abu-Rabia, Aref, author.

Title Indigenous Medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East / Aref Abu-Rabia
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 216 pages) : illustrations
Contents Indigenous Medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Health and Health Services among the Bedouin in the Middle East -- Chapter 2. The Treatment of Human Ailments -- Chapter 3. General Treatments -- Chapter 4. "Don't Touch My Body" -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine ' to their reciprocal enrichment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bedouins -- Medicine
Traditional medicine -- Arab countries
Medicine, Arab.
Medicine, Arabic
Medicine, Traditional
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Bedouins -- Medicine
Traditional medicine
SUBJECT Middle East. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501
Middle East
Subject Arab countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782386902
1782386904