The Shaman's Touch: Otomi Indian Symbolic Healing

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
George A. Collier ◽  
James Dow
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Healing

Symbolic Healing

EXPLORE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Larry Burk
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Healing

More on the Anthropology of Symbolic Healing

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Author(s):  
James Dow
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Healing

I and the Other: A Case of Symbolic Healing

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Albert Kreinheder
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Symbolic Healing

scholarly journals Patients, pharmacists, and the placebo in France: From iatrogenic to ethical risks

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Fainzang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Placebo Effect ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Healing Rituals ◽  
Symbolic Healing ◽  
Widespread Interest

Placebos have attracted widespread interest amongst anthropologists who have sought to explain the placebo dimension of medicines or healing rituals prescribed by health professionals or traditional healers by emphasizing aspects relating to symbolic healing. Very little investigation has been done however into the perceptions individuals hold of placebos, and their reasons for resorting to placebos and/or the placebo effect within the framework of family medication, on one hand, and the perception pharmacists have on this issue and the uses they make of it in their responses to the demands of users, on the other. This article addresses their uses of placebos and the placebo effect within the context of medicinal risk management in France; it also examines the perception actors have of placebos (whether ‘pure’ or ‘impure’) in the light of their ethical positions.

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