Medical pluralism constitutes the coexistence of multiple medical subsystems, particularly in state or complex societies. Although biomedicine is often dominant in all modern societies today, indigenous and professionalized heterodox medical systems of many sorts persist for a variety of reasons. The examination of medical pluralism in its numerous manifestations has been for some time a prominent concern of medical anthropology.
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Baer, H. A. (2004). Medical Pluralism. In Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology (pp. 109–116). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29905-x_12
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