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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Health Healthcare Healing”
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United States”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
3
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short films
1
Region
South America
1
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
1
Country
Bolivia
1
Nigeria
1
Vietnam
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Development projects
1
Health / Health care / Healing
3
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Possession
1
Ritual
1
Directors
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Speed, Frank
1
Series
not set
3
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Country of production
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
3
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Year of production
1963
1
1989
1
1998
1
Status
Film list
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
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
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