Normal view
MARC view
Traditional medicine (Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- Ethnic medicine
- Ethnomedicine
- Earlier heading: Folk medicine
- Home cures
- Home medicine
- Home remedies
- Indigenous medicine
- Medical folklore
- Earlier heading: Medicine, Primitive
- Primitive medicine
- Earlier heading: Surgery, Primitive
See also:
- Broader heading: Alternative medicine
- Broader heading: Folklore
- Broader heading: Medical anthropology
- Ethnopharmacology
Phone call, Dec. 14, 1992, to American Anthropological Association.
MESH (Medicine, Traditional with ref. from Ethnomedicine, Folk medicine, Indigenous medicine, and Medicine, Primitive)
Phone call to NLM, Jan. 13, 1993 ("traditional medicine")
LC data base, Jan. 13, 1993 ("traditional medicine, folk medicine, ethnomedicine, indigenous medicine, and ethnic medicine")
Phone call, Dec. 14, 1992, to American Folklife Center (Folk medicine is still the preferred term in folklore, but they do not object to the change)
97-72868: Old-time home remedies, c1998.
Dorland's med. dict.; Mosby's med. dict., 1990; Random House; Stedman's med. dict.; Web. 3