Traditional Healing

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This paper discusses whether traditional healers and their practices can be reconciled with the mainstream bio-medical health care community. The author points out that the bio-medical establishment has always been critical of alternative medicines and treatments. The paper relates that recent studies indicate that the future expansion or decline of traditional healing will ultimately be determined by public acceptance or rejection on a global scale, not by local doctors or traditional healers.

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"In examining whether traditional healers and their practices can be reconciled with the biomedical health care community, it is evident that the mainstream biomedical establishment has always been critical of alternative medicines and treatments. But it is also evident from recent studies that the future expansion or decline of traditional healing will ultimately be determined by public acceptance or rejection on a global scale, not by local doctors or traditional healers (Vitebsky 276-279)."

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