In the 1970s, the intellectual historian, Qian Mu examined and explained Zhu Xi's thought directly in traditional indigenous terms, without reading western concepts and logical patterns into his system.
While we have discussed the connotations of the two popular idioms used in describing diabetes in Bafut, there are other indigenous terms and descriptions that are nowadays fading from use as the following quote illustrates: Diabetes was called yoongkee and ki-yoongkee.
Whereas Diabetes Mellitus conveys little about the signs and symptoms of the disease to participants, the two indigenous terms are grounded in the experience of the person afflicted – the experience of illness – and also suggest crucial things about the underlying mechanisms of illness and its origin.
Nathan Sivin (1995, 3n1) points out that there is no indigenous term for "nature" in China before the nineteenth century.
In November 2008 the Council of Australian Governments established a National Partnership Agreement on 'Closing the Gap in Indigenous health outcomes' (henceforth termed the "COAG NPA").
We aimed to establish whether long-term azithromycin reduced pulmonary exacerbations in Indigenous children with non-cystic-fibrosis bronchiectasis or chronic suppurative lung disease.
According to the Australian Indigenous scholar Rigney (who created the term Indigenist research), 'Privileging Indigenous voices in Indigenous research' is key to 'addressing their history of exploitation, suspicion, misunderstanding and prejudice' (ref. 24, p.116).
When sickness strikes in indigenous Amazonian communities, visits to a clinic are costly both in terms of time and money.
To assess patient choices with regard to adherence to long-term therapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in indigenous and non-indigenous populations.
Although necessary, the long-term development plan for Africa must also include investments in indigenous entrepreneurs and startups.
