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ethnomedicine  

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  • The nature and experience of affliction and the causes and consequences thereof vary from culture to culture and, over time, within a culture. Cultures have developed more or less organized approaches to understand and treat afflictions, and identify the agents, forces, or conditions believed responsible for them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Ethnomedicine]

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