Totemic medicine among the American Indians of the northwest coast

Patient Educ Couns. 1995 Sep;26(1-3):159-67. doi: 10.1016/0738-3991(95)00751-k.

Abstract

A description is presented of the medical beliefs of the totemic people on the Northwest American coast. The principles of Shamanic therapy are analysed. The consequences for therapeutic views by medical schools are discussed.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Alaska
  • Attitude to Health / ethnology*
  • British Columbia
  • Humans
  • Indians, North American*
  • Medicine, Traditional*
  • Yukon Territory