Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East / / Aref Abu-Rabia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Abu-Rabia, Aref,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Health and Health Services among the Bedouin in the Middle East --; Chapter 2 The Treatment of Human Ailments --; Chapter 3 General Treatments --; Chapter 4 “Don’t Touch My Body” The Qarina and Bedouin Women’s Fertility --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782386902; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782386902
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Aref Abu-Rabia.

Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.