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- A "barefoot doctor" from the Hong Shi production brigade, in northern China checks on the health of a mother and her chil in their home. When there is a choice between ancient herbal remedies and "Western" ones, many patients prefer traditional medicine1
- A "barefoot" doctor listens to the heartbeat of the unborn child. These useful community health workers used once to be literally barfoot, when they brought their healing skills to wokers int he rice paddy- fields1
- A Chinese "barefoot doctor" uses her needles to treat a production brigade worker1
- A Malaysian bomoh prepares a herbal offering to ward off evil spirits1
- A Nigerian boy with Burkitt's lymphoma of the mandible1
- A basis of practical knowledge underlies the spiritual healer's rulings on when to eat certain fruits or when they are forbidde, Taboo1
- A cancer patient receives cobalt therapy at the Tirana Cancer Institute1
- A centuries-old drawing in a Shanghai museum1
- A child at play. However, the game this little turkish girl is playing with is specially made for blind children who have to substitute the sense of touch for that of sight1
- A collection of centuries-old needles, on display at Shanghai's Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine1
- A disturbed man reverting to childhood1
- A frightened farmer carries his wife, stricken down with tetanus, to the People's Health Centre in Savar- a boldly pioneering complex that is bringing health care to the rural poor of Bangladesh1
- A group of young European males engaged in a drinking bout1
- A happy mother and a happy child in a health centre at Francistown, Botswana. A combination which throughout the ages has been the hallmark of a satisfactory quality of life1
- A laboratory at Babol, Iran, where work on a WHO cancer project is in progress1
- A laminar flow hood ensures sterile conditions as tissue cultures are being prepared at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at Lyon-France. IRAC carries out reasearch in carcinogenesis for WHO1
- A lesson in dental care in Thailand. Prevention of tooth decay in childhood is of major importance1
- A modern European pharmacy1
- A modern anatomy chart for Chinese medical students shows the acupuncture points and meridians1
- A modern malady - the over-consumption of drugs1