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Michael H. Logan
Researcher at University of Tennessee
Publications - 19
Citations - 954
Michael H. Logan is an academic researcher from University of Tennessee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medical anthropology & Susto. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 19 publications receiving 878 citations.
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Informant Consensus: A New Approach for Identifying Potentially Effective Medicinal Plants
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that intra-and intergroup similarities in the use of medicinal plants have arisen and persist because particular remedies produce reactions that are both predictable and considered to be desirable.
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Part five: Anthropological research on the hot‐cold theory of disease: Some methodological suggestions
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Ethnography and bioassay: combined methods for a preliminary screen of home remedies for potential pharmacological activity
TL;DR: The results of one field-based screen of ethnopharmaceutical resources indicate that the most commonly used remedies in an ethnomedical system are also those most likely to contain active constituents.
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Fallen fontanelle in the American Southwest: its origin, epidemiology, and possible organic causes.
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New lines of inquiry on the illness of susto.
TL;DR: The present essay offers a summation of much of the research done on fright-sickness to date, but also suggests a number of new lines of inquiry that will advance the authors' understanding of this widely spread, yet still to be fully understood, ethnomedical disease category.