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Revisiting usog, pasma, kulam / Michael L. Tan.
Penn Museum Library GN296.5.P6 T36 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Tan, Michael L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology--Philippines.
- Health--Social aspects--Philippines.
- Traditional medicine--Philippines.
- Traditional medicine.
- Health--Social aspects.
- Medical anthropology.
- Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 163 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Student edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Diliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Deconstructing health and illness
- Defining the framework for analysis : health, illness, and medicine
- Usog, bangungot, and other mystical theories of illness causation
- The engkanto, mangkukulam, and aswang : personalistic theories of illness causation
- Pasma, hangin, and naturalistic theories of illness causation
- From illness to health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-163).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789715425704
- 9715425704
- OCLC:
- 300977669
- Publisher Number:
- 99935024459
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