Cross Cultural Treatment

The blending of traditional and medical health care is imperative for fostering trust and wellbeing all over the world.

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More and more, biomedical practitioners are being encouraged to learn about folk illnesses and to take their psychological and physical symptoms seriously.

"The key issue is for all healers is to recognize the aspect of the illness that they are most capable of treating. For the biomedical healer it is the proximate and biological cause and physiological symptoms of the illness, while for the folk healer it is the emically determined ultimate and social cause of the illness." -Baer & Bustillo

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