Original scientific paper
An Ethnomedicine Study among Women in Uremia (North-West Iran)
Farideh Madjidi Khameneh
Abstract
During the recent years, ethomedicine has attracted a great deal of attention among the investigators throughout the
world. Although ethnomedicine seeks, in the first place, to compensate for a biological need through providing cures for
disorders, it, however, is of a cultural nature, too, in that it investigates people’s behaviors and reactions toward health
and the issues related to it. Consequently, traditional health must be counted as a component of a society’s culture. Investigations
of people’s views toward traditional medicine are capable of throwing light on acquaintance with their conducts,
customs, traditions and behaviors, as well as the social-economic conditions prevailing in their environment. In
addition, such investigations of public medicine bring about familiarities with gradual developments in traditional
medical methodologies as introduced by culture, economic, or social factors, first into the society, then medicine. Familiarizations
with cultural diversities in relation to medicine are the end results. The present paper comprise an anthropological
approach toward investigation of ethnomedical practiced by women of Uremia (North-West, Iran)
Keywords
ethnomedicine; women; Iran; Uremia
Hrčak ID:
84806
URI
Publication date:
10.7.2012.
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