Healing Traditions: How have healing traditions changed, from the personalistic systems of early cultures (animism, totemism, shamanism), to naturalistic systems (humoral pathology, Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine), to the more complex Greek (Hippocratic) medical system and the Roman public health system? How are healing traditions adaptive to social and cultural development?
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