women use antenatal care services and deliver in clinics‚ and a considerable number complement this use of formal health services with traditional medicine. This study reported here examined the knowledge‚ beliefs and practical experiences of pregnant women‚ traditional healers and midwives with regard to kgaba (traditional medicine) and explored what constitutes kgaba. Interviews (N=30) and focus group discussions (N=21) were carried out among participants in Mogwase district in the North West
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about. Much of the work we had undertaken within university had been focused on long term conditions and the process for patients being discharged from the hospital to home. With this in mind and a great experience on my community placement I wanted to learn more about the role of the community pharmacist. I felt that this would build on my knowledge base‚ from university‚ of the discharge process and the management of peoples conditions within the community. I felt that a better understanding of the
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types of art around the world. It was also different from itself because it made a big change going from before the 1900s to after the 1900s. For starters before the 1900s for the simple fact that they started using way more color than they used to. Another difference from both times is that they seemed to move from painting objects and animals to painting people and creating portraits. Contrasting Indian art from before and after 1900 they started to head in a more realist art style. Before
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Since the 1900’s‚ the overall death rate of the population in Britain has decreased. For males‚ the death rate has dropped from 25829 in 1901 to a mere 8477 in 2000. The rate fell from 21705 to 5679 within the same period of time for females. It was noted that death rates increased during flu epidemics as well as in cold and hot weather. For example‚ about 200 000 people died in the year 1918 due to the influenza epidemic. Nowadays‚ more people die after the age of 65 while in the early 1900’s‚ only
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Pre 1900’s Fashion In the early 1900’s also known as the Edwardian Era‚ fashion was more important than comfort. It was an era if elegance and grace‚ clothing was considered a status symbol. The silhouette of the early 1900’s was an “S” shaped figure‚ female bodies were corseted to a small waist with exaggerated curved hips and buttocks. It was very important the women wore corsets throughout the early 1900 and even before that time. Thus‚ added emphasized on the waist giving the women various
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English 11-B 11 April 2009 Elizabethan Medicine in the Age of Shakespeare The Elizabethan era‚ also known as the age of Shakespeare‚ refers to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603). Unlike the new found passion for art and culture during this English Renaissance‚ including. the expansion of Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare ’s new style‚ the advancement of medicine fell far behind. (Rowse 2000) This lack of interest in medicine and research in Shakespeare ’s England directly contributed
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Keum Yong (Andrew) Lee DBQ – Score 8/9 (95) In what ways and to what extent did the “American identity” develop between 1750 and 1776? Though the American colonists had not achieved a true‚ uniform sense of identity or unity by 1776‚ on the eve of Revolution‚ the progress towards unity and the inchoate idea of an “American” between 1750 and 1776 is inevitable in both existence and significance. Previous to the French and Indian War‚ America as a whole had been‚ more or less‚ loyal mercantile-based
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the field of medicine. The knowledge of the indigenous communities on medicine is popularly known by the nomenclature “Traditional Medicine”. The focus of inquiry in this paper is the extent to which the existing legal regime especially the intellectual property paradigm attempts to protect and preserve the interest of the indigenous peoples over their knowledge. The paper analyses whether indigenous medicine fits itself into the existing definition given by WHO on traditional medicine and proceeds
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TCM‚ or Traditional Chinese Medicine‚ can be traced as far back as 1000 BC‚ where stone acupuncture needles were believed to be used. Texts from that period also talked of Yin and Yang and other concepts. The first written work on TCM is titled the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic‚ Huangdi Newijing (Gascoigne 11). This book was written in 300 BC‚ but entries date back to the early 2700’s BC. The book is still used in universities of Chinese Medicine around the world and is often called the bible
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Use of Medicines Changing the Face of Abortion | January 27 2013 | Professor: Jaronda J. Miller‚ Sociology 100-174GA057-1132-001 | A Journal Article in Sociology | Use of Medicines Changing the Face of Abortion Denise Collins-Walker Strayer University Sociology 100 -174GA057-1132-001 Introduction to Sociology January 27‚ 2013 ABSTRACT The drug called mifepristone accompanied with the drug prostaglandin has been a blessing to many women around the world. Its use in the abortion
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