Latest papers

Traditional postpartum practices and rituals: clinical implications.

[Sociocultural aspects of albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa: mutilations and ritual murders committed in east Africa (Burundi and Tanzania)]

Cultural adaptation of psychological trauma treatment for children.

Changes in spirituality among ayahuasca ceremony novice participants.

Implementation of different initiatives to develop a culture of professionalism in the medical school.

A nightly bedtime routine: impact on sleep in young children and maternal mood.

Definitions of suicide and self-harm behavior in an Australian aboriginal community.

Ritual and the organisation of care in primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa.

[Rituals and ethics; ritual slaughter or humane killing?]

Jivaro Tsantsas or Shrunken Head

Thunder among the pines: defining a pan-Asian soma.

A late-medieval crisis of superstition?

Painless birth.

Turning order into chaos through repetition and addition of elementary acts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Medical circumcision and manhood initiation rituals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a post intervention evaluation.

Liturgy has the power to change us. Like a text, it offers an alternate world of risk and growth.

Puja as one dimension of a sensitive, relational approach to community health care provision.

Larger than life.

Thoughts from the White Coat Ceremony.

Reorientation of care in the NICU: a Jewish perspective.