Medical Anthropology: Related Internet Sites

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Related Internet Sites

Medical Systems:

Folk Medicine in Hispanics in the Southwestern United States (a good description of the Mexican and Southwestern U.S. Hispanic folk medical practices with examples and illustrations--by Nancy Neff, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine)

Humoral pathology (descriptions of naturalistic medical systems other than the modern Western medical system with a good bibliography produced by Steven Crouthamel, Palomar College)

The Origins of Mexican Folk Medicine (a brief history by Annette Sandoval; in Planeta.com: Eco Travels in Latin America)

Culture-Bound Mental Syndromes:

Beyond Western Medical Techniques: Ethnomedicine (a source for online links)

Culture-Bound Psychopathology (short descriptions of the symptoms and cultures for 24 culture-bound syndromes produced by Jim Nelson)

Culture Bound Syndromes (short description of the general characteristics of culture-bound syndromes by Timothy M. Hall at U.C.S.D.)

Culture-Bound Syndromes in China (a well done listing with links created for "Traditional Chinese Society", a course by Timothy M. Hall at U.C.S.D.)

Index of Culture-Bound Syndromes around the world (a well done listing with links created for "Traditional Chinese Society", a course by Timothy M. Hall at U.C.S.D.)

Koro (shook yang) (description of koro with examples and references; in The Skeptics Dictionary)

Vector-Borne Diseases:

Changes in the Incidence of Vector-borne Diseases Attributable to Climate Change (a summary with good links; Socio-economic Data Applications Center, Columbia University, New York)

Current Status of Vector-borne Diseases around the World (a summary with good links; Socio-economic Data Applications Center, Columbia University, New York)

Medical Anthropology:

Society for Medical Anthropology (news, views, academic resources, and other online information related to medical anthropology--this is the official website of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association)

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