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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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Tradition or Region

Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Unani and other indigenous systems 1

Profession/Role

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Healing Tradition

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Nationality

Era (Birth Year)Showing the 100 most common of 144 options.

Era First Practiced

Tradition or Region

Acupuncturists and Acupuncture Researchers

African Traditional Healers

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Clinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders

Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture

Indigenous American and Pacific Healing Traditions

Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders

Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders

Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance

Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians

Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders

Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine

Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine

Unorthodox and Anthroposophic Physicians