Preferred Label : shamanism;
MeSH definition : An intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism, which assumes a Great Spirit,
with lesser deities subordinated. With the beginnings of shamanism there was the advent
of the medicine man or witch doctor, who assumed a supervisory relation to disease
and its cure. Formally, shamanism is a religion of Ural-Altaic peoples of Northern
Asia and Europe, characterized by the belief that the unseen world of gods, demons,
ancestral spirits is responsive only to shamans. The Indians of North and South America
entertain religious practices similar to the Ural-Altaic shamanism. The word shaman
comes from the Tungusic (Manchuria and Siberia) saman, meaning Buddhist monk. The
shaman handles disease almost entirely by psychotherapeutic means; he frightens away
the demons of disease by assuming a terrifying mien. (From Garrison, An Introduction
to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p22; from Webster, 3d ed); An intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism, which assumes a Great Spirit,
with lesser deities subordinated. With the beginnings of shamanism there was the advent
of the medicine man or witch doctor, who assumed a supervisory relation to disease
and its cure. Formally, shamanism is a religion of Ural-Altaic peoples of Northern
Asia and Europe, characterized by the belief that the unseen world of gods, demons,
ancestral spirits is responsive only to shamans. The Indians of North and South America
entertain religious practices similar to the Ural-Altaic shamanism. The word shaman
comes from the Tungusic (Manchuria and Siberia) saman, meaning Buddhist monk. The
SHAMAN handles disease almost entirely by psychotherapeutic means; he frightens away
the demons of disease by assuming a terrifying mien. (From Garrison, An Introduction
to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p22; from Webster, 3d ed);
MeSH annotation : a form of traditional medicine; specify geog; not for African witch doctors: use instead
MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL;
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism;
Origin ID : D019423;
UMLS CUI : C0302835;
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An intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism, which assumes a Great Spirit,
with lesser deities subordinated. With the beginnings of shamanism there was the advent
of the medicine man or witch doctor, who assumed a supervisory relation to disease
and its cure. Formally, shamanism is a religion of Ural-Altaic peoples of Northern
Asia and Europe, characterized by the belief that the unseen world of gods, demons,
ancestral spirits is responsive only to shamans. The Indians of North and South America
entertain religious practices similar to the Ural-Altaic shamanism. The word shaman
comes from the Tungusic (Manchuria and Siberia) saman, meaning Buddhist monk. The
shaman handles disease almost entirely by psychotherapeutic means; he frightens away
the demons of disease by assuming a terrifying mien. (From Garrison, An Introduction
to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p22; from Webster, 3d ed)
An intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism, which assumes a Great Spirit,
with lesser deities subordinated. With the beginnings of shamanism there was the advent
of the medicine man or witch doctor, who assumed a supervisory relation to disease
and its cure. Formally, shamanism is a religion of Ural-Altaic peoples of Northern
Asia and Europe, characterized by the belief that the unseen world of gods, demons,
ancestral spirits is responsive only to shamans. The Indians of North and South America
entertain religious practices similar to the Ural-Altaic shamanism. The word shaman
comes from the Tungusic (Manchuria and Siberia) saman, meaning Buddhist monk. The
SHAMAN handles disease almost entirely by psychotherapeutic means; he frightens away
the demons of disease by assuming a terrifying mien. (From Garrison, An Introduction
to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p22; from Webster, 3d ed)
