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Healing Systems

Healing Systems is a conceptual framework in medical anthropology that encompasses culturally structured modes of understanding and addressing illness, distinguished by their integration of symbolic, social, and therapeutic practices within specific ethnographic contexts.

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Handbook of Religion and Health

Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, David B. Larson · American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · 2004 · 3.3K citations

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The Wounded Storyteller: Body Illness, and Ethics

Nature Medicine · 1996 · 3K citations

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THE NATURE OF SUFFERING AND THE GOALS OF MEDICINE

Eric J. Cassel · New England Journal of Medicine · 1982 · 2.1K citations

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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition

Andrew E. Slaby · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1988 · 1.6K citations

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Medicinal plants in Mexico: healers' consensus and cultural importance

Michael Heinrich, Anita Ankli, Barbara Frei et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 1998 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. LS
    Leslie Swartz

    Stellenbosch University, South Africa

    13 publications · 466 citations

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  2. AK
    Arthur Kleinman

    Harvard University, United States

    14 publications · 831 citations

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  3. WB
    Wayne B. Jonas

    Samueli Institute, United States

    11 publications · 599 citations

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  4. LK
    Lily Kpobi

    Stellenbosch University, South Africa

    9 publications · 279 citations

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  5. JE
    Joan Engebretson

    The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, United States

    8 publications · 161 citations

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Institutions

1.8K

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    21 h-index

    33 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    19 h-index

    35 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    18 h-index

    24 publications

    894 citations

  4. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    18 h-index

    29 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    16 h-index

    37 publications

    1.6K citations

  6. Stellenbosch University

    Stellenbosch, South Africa

    16 h-index

    38 publications

    1.5K citations

  7. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    16 h-index

    27 publications

    2.3K citations

  8. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    16 h-index

    29 publications

    988 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 165 publications · 11.9K citations

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  2. Social Science & Medicine

    95 publications · 6.1K citations

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 203 publications · 6.6K citations

    41

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  4. Journal of Ethnopharmacology

    35 publications · 3K citations

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  5. Medical Anthropology Quarterly

    56 publications · 2.7K citations

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