Search for dissertations about: "oral traditions"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words oral traditions.

2. 6. Cobalamin communication in Sweden 1990 – 2000 : views, knowledge and practice among Swedish physicians

   Author : Mats Nilsson; Johan Lökk; Göran Westman; Bo Norberg; Kurt Svärdsudd; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicine; Cobalamin; folate; iron; homocysteine; MMA; vitamin B12 deficiency; therapy tradition; drug epidemiology; communication; receivers; senders; Medicin; Dermatology and venerology; clinical genetics; internal medicine; Dermatologi och venerologi; klinisk genetik; invärtesmedicin; medicin; Medicine;

   Abstract : Cobalamin (vitamin B12) is one of several essential micronutrients needed by the human organism. Other important micronutritients, which interplay with vitamin B12, are folate and iron. During the last ten years, the attention has been drawn to different forms of neurological disorders supposed to be caused by vitamin B12 deficiency. READ MORE

4. 7. Languages of healing : Theories, practice and terminology within Eastern Turki medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

   Author : Patrick Hällzon; László Károly; Ildikó Bellér-Hann; Julian Rentzsch; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Eastern Turki; Uyghur; Medicine; Graeco-Islamic; Chagatay; Medical manuscripts; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk;

   Abstract : Medical practices in Eastern Turkestan consisted of a number of components that are not easily identifiable, constituting a highly pluralistic medical field defined by several overlapping traditions, of which Graeco-Islamic medicine played one part while the others, including Western medicine, also played important and/or complementary roles. It can be defined as a diverse but still coherent medical tradition closely related to that of adjacent societies, especially Turkic and Muslim, but also shaped by its own specific historical and cultural context. READ MORE