Summary Background: Surveys from several European countries suggest a European-wide
increase in the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). To safeguard …

The article presents a paradigm current in contemporary medical anthropology–Critical
Medical Anthropology (CMA), which merges political-economic approaches with a culturally …

While many doctors claim that Lyme disease—a tick-borne bacterial infection—is easily
diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist …

This article investigates how the practice of drinking kombe (drinking washed off Qur'anic
verses) informs subjectivities in the nexus of 'religion','medicine'and their Swahili …

An association of non-biomedical healthcare with appeals to nature and naturalness, and an
invocation of a rhetoric of gentleness, goodness, purity and moral power has been noted …

This paper focuses on the diversity in patients' experience of bio-medicine and contrasts it
with the normative view characteristic of health professionals. Ethnographic fieldwork among …

There is an abundance of health research with women in street-based sex work, but few
studies examine what health means and how it is practiced by participants. We embrace …

Purpose This study aimed to investigate the use of non-conventional medicine (NCM)
among long-term cancer survivors and its links with healthy behavior. Methods This study …

Blood transfusions belong to standard and commonly utilised biomedical procedures.
Jehovah's Witnesses' transfusion refusals are often referred to in bioethical and medical …

Esta tese desenvolve-se em torno da temática das" medicinas complementares e
alternativas"(MCA) em Portugal, mais concretamente sobre o recurso dos indivíduos às …