Healing Powers: A Look at Three Medical Traditions
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Butler, Brendan F.
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2006
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My Integrative Cultural Research Project was a comparison of three medical traditions I experienced while
abroad. The first medical tradition was orthodox Western medicine as practiced at Derbarl Yerrigan, a clinic in
Perth specializing in the care of Aboriginal Australians. The second medical tradition was Homeopathy as
practiced at the Nehru Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital (N.H.M.C. & H.) in Delhi, India. The third
medicine was traditional Tibetan medicine as practiced at the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute in
McLeod Ganj, India.
During October and November 2005, I had a placement at Derbarl Yerrigan. My main activities there were
shadowing the doctors and nurses and screening patients. From the end of November through the middle of
December 2005, I participated in the Asia Study Tour conducted by Curtin University. We visited sites in
Singapore, Malaysia, and India in order to observe health care in these regions. My experiences with
Homeopathy and Tibetan medicine stem from this study tour.
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