title: Totemic medicine among the American Indians of the northwest coast.
abstract: A description is presented of the medical beliefs of the totemic people on the Northwest American coast. The principles of Shamanic therapy are analysed. The consequences for therapeutic views by medical schools are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D001955:British Columbia; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D015874:Yukon Territory