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- 1From:Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine (Issue 281) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper examines the parallels between information networks and the spread of viruses such as avian flu (H5N1). It argues that a better understanding of localized, traditional medicine and practices made...
- 2From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 261) Peer-ReviewedBones, like most other parts of the body, are as much a product of our culture and evolution as a biochemical accessory. Our bones tell stories about the past and predict the future. And anthropology is the language of...
- 3From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 212) Peer-ReviewedNovel, human-made, chemicals in the environment are increasingly linked to a variety of health disorders including cancers and chemical sensitivities. By far the greatest source of these chemicals is modern agriculture....
- 4From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 217) Peer-ReviewedIn the West, many drugs are highly refined and consumed excessively or habitually, in ways that are addictive and unhealthy. However, in traditional societies powerful mind-active plants are consumed ritually for...
- 5From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 229-230) Peer-ReviewedHeart disease is perhaps more than most others a disease of modernization. From increasing inactivity to worsened dietary and environmental quality, many factors contribute to this condition in modern societies....
- 6From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 246) Peer-ReviewedAnthropometrics is the study of quantitative measurement of human variation. Traditionally, it has been limited to studies of physical variation in terms of human body measurements such as weight, height, waist to hip...
- 7From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 247-248) Peer-ReviewedCannabis sativa is a plant with a long and controversial history of use in food and medicine around the world. In this column I will examine this plant in cross cultural perspective as well as recent findings from...
- 8From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 221) Peer-Reviewed
- 9From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 265-266) Peer-ReviewedThe subject of human habitat, settlement and shelter is one that has intrigued anthro-pologists for decades. For modern, Western people the explosion of interest in real estate in the past decade represents a...
- 10From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 223-224) Peer-ReviewedAbout the Author Tim Batchelder, BA, is a science writer specializing in anthropology and health. ********** Hormone levels have changed over the course of evolution in humans with dramatic effects on health....
- 11From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 234) Peer-ReviewedTraditional people living at high altitudes are subject to respiratory, metabolic and other physiological stress. Today, Olympic athletes seek out high altitude locations to train to help increase their lung capacity...
- 12From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 233) Peer-Reviewedwww.anthrocode.com timbatchelder@hotmail.com Royal jelly is perhaps more than any other dietary supplement one of controversy. With a brief history of use and scant biochemical studies it appears to be an unlikely...
- 13From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 226) Peer-ReviewedArthritis is a disease that has plagued humans for millennia. Yet, because it leaves very clear marks on the skeletal system, anthro-pologists have been able to trace its occurrence to fundamental shifts in lifestyle...
- 14From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 259-260) Peer-ReviewedAchieving health is perhaps more than anything else a matter of finding a sustaining environment to call home. However, America and many other industrialized countries are in the midst of a "housing crisis" in which the...
- 15From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 216) Peer-ReviewedGastrointestinal disorders are commonly treated with herbal medicines in a wide variety of cultures. The plant family Asteraceae (Compositae) has contributed among the largest number of plants to the pharmacopoeias of...
- 16From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 218) Peer-ReviewedI have just returned from a week-long fellowship course in ethnobotany and environmental science run by the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian islands. During this fellowship, aimed...
- 17From:Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine (Issue 271-272) Peer-ReviewedThe many practitioners within the field of alternative therapies are connected by one underlying theme: a greater awareness of the needs of real people seeking health. This awareness is accomplished through ethnographic...
- 18From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 264) Peer-ReviewedIn today's world we are increasingly surrounded by an electromagnetic cloud created by the technologies that we use. While debate continues about the physical effects of exposure to human generated electromagnetic...
- 19From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 256) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between chocolate and female health in our culture is legendary. How many times have we heard a female friend say they "need chocolate," with a tone of desperation in her voice? Indeed, despite its...
- 20From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 227) Peer-ReviewedAlternative therapies are extremely popular among women with breast cancer. But what are some of the reasons and decision-making processes that go into choosing an alternative therapy? In this column, we look at several...