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Profession/Role

This dimension sorts healers by their profession or role, a physician, a surgeon, a nurse or a traditional healer. Wikipedia notes that a medical doctor is "a health professional who practices medicine," one of several distinct roles that healers have held throughout history. Browsing by profession compares healers who did the same kind of work.

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Uses International Classification

ISCO-08 (International Standard Classification of Occupations) 1

Profession/Role

42 entries

Era First Practiced

Tradition or Region

Acupuncturists and Acupuncture Researchers

African Traditional Healers

Anatomists and Physiologists of Antiquity and the Renaissance

Anesthesiologists and Perioperative Care Pioneers

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Cardiac, Vascular and Transplant Surgeons

Cellular and Disease Pathologists

Clinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Dentists and Pioneers of Dental Anesthesia

Epidemiology and Tropical Disease Control Pioneers

Experimental Pathologists and Chemotherapy Pioneers

Founders of Antisepsis and Modern Operative Surgery

Founders of Modern Nursing and Battlefield Care

Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders

HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders

Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers

Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture

Imaging, Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors

Immunology and Transplantation Scientists

Indigenous American and Pacific Healing Traditions

Maternal, Child Health and Blood Service Founders

Midwifery, Reproductive Science and Hospice Care Pioneers

Military, Public Health and Reform Surgeons

Molecular Biologists and Geneticists

Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders

Neurologists and Biological Psychiatry Pioneers

Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints

Obstetricians and Gynecologic Surgeons

Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders

Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors

Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance

Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine

Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians

Pioneers of Bacteriology and Parasitology

Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Humanistic Pioneers

Reproductive Technology Inventors

Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders

Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe

Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine

Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine

Unorthodox and Anthroposophic Physicians

Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers