Folk Medicine in Markets – A Field Study in Mosul City

Salah Mahmood, Razaq; Abdal,

doi:10.33899/moss.2009.45664

	Folk Medicine in Markets – A Field Study in Mosul City
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Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 117-152 PDF (0 K)
DOI: 10.33899/moss.2009.45664
Authors
Razaq Salah Mahmood;
Abstract
The research treats of folk medicine in Mosuli markets and investigates how much its methods are spread in markets. Also it shows the reasons behind it’s the spread and the continuation of this phenomenon under discussion . Also the research investigates the geo-ethnography distribution of folk medicine methods in Mosuli markets according to quarters of Mosul. The sample of the research involved (9) folk doctors and (30)patients who benefit from folk medicine in markets. The researcher followed up an anthropology and content analysis methods in his study. Interview and observation were tools of collection datas . The research found out that folk medicine ways in fields of surgery , drugs and spiritual treatment are spread in Mosul markets .Religious ,social, cultural and economical are stand behind the spread of folk medicine according to the sample`s opinions in a field study(patients and doctors).

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