Traditional medicine
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Traditional medicine
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083164
- info:lc/authorities/sh85083164
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85083164#concept
Instance Of
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Variants
- Ethnic medicine
- Ethnomedicine
- Folk medicine
- Home cures
- Home medicine
- Home remedies
- Indigenous medicine
- Medical folklore
- Medicine, Primitive
- Primitive medicine
- Surgery, Primitive
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Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Folk medicine
- Medicine, Primitive
- Surgery, Primitive
Sources
- found: Phone call, Dec. 14, 1992, to American Anthropological Association.
- found: MESH (Medicine, Traditional with ref. from Ethnomedicine, Folk medicine, Indigenous medicine, and Medicine, Primitive)
- found: Phone call to NLM, Jan. 13, 1993 ("traditional medicine")
- found: LC data base, Jan. 13, 1993 ("traditional medicine, folk medicine, ethnomedicine, indigenous medicine, and ethnic medicine")
- found: Phone call, Dec. 14, 1992, to American Folklife Center (Folk medicine is still the preferred term in folklore, but they do not object to the change)
- found: 97-72868: Old-time home remedies, c1998.
- notfound: Dorland's med. dict.;Mosby's med. dict., 1990;Random House;Stedman's med. dict.;Web. 3
LC Classification
- GN477-GN477.7
- GR880
Change Notes
- 2006-01-11: new
- 2006-01-26: revised
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