Films - RAI FILM

RAI FILM

Film list

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Doctors of Two Worlds 1989 55‘

Directed by Natasha Solomons .

In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is

South America Health / Health care / Healing Informant-researcher relationship Development projects

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The Medium is the Masseuse: a Balinese Massage 1983 31‘

Directed by Timothy Asch Linda Connor Patsy Asch .

Jero uses massage and traditional medicines to treat Ida Bagus, who suffers from sterility and seizures. Through her treatment and her words, Jero reveals her conceptions of the human body, the

South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Reproduction (biology)

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Tigers Apprentice 1998 57‘

Directed by M. Trinh Nguyen .

Tiger’s Apprentice is the story of M. Trinh Nguyen’s journey to her native Vietnam. She observes and documents her great-uncle’s folk medicine practices treating many patients and making his

South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany

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Were Ni! He is a Madman 1963 30‘

Directed by Frank Speed Raymond Prince .

This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are

West Africa Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Possession