Title: VII. FOLK MEDICINE AND FOLK CURES.
Authors: Lockhart, Kristi L.; Keil, Frank C.
Abstract: The article focuses on beliefs regarding folk medicine and folk cure. It explores six relevant areas that offer coherent and interrelated set of beliefs that were widespread in developed North American cultures. It also mentions how such beliefs became more widespread and the development of changes with respect to dualism regarding folk medicine and cure.
Subjects: NOSOLOGY; THERAPEUTICS; AGE distribution; ATTITUDE (Psychology); ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology); DEVELOPMENTAL psychobiology; DISEASES; HEALTH attitudes; INTUITION; MEDICINE; OPTIMISM; THOUGHT & thinking; GOVERNMENT policy; TREATMENT effectiveness
Publication: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2018, Vol 83, Issue 2, p140
ISSN: 0037-976X
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1111/mono.12367

VII. FOLK MEDICINE AND FOLK CURES.

Lockhart, Kristi L.; Keil, Frank C.