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Nursing Pacific

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Kau faito'o: Traditional healers of Tonga

Websites

Stanford School of Medicine: Ethnogeriatrics: Traditional health beliefs: Native Hawaiian values

Ministry of Health: Rongoā Māori: Traditional Māori healing

Books on the shelf

Traditional healing and Pacificans: A manual for community health worker by Sitaleki A. Finau et al.
Dewey Number: 362.1089994 FIN
Publication Date: 2004
Polynesian herbal medicine by W. Arthur Whistler
Dewey Number: 615.3210996 WHI
Publication Date: 1993
Healing practices in the South Pacific by Claire D. Parsons
Dewey Number: 615.882 HEA
Publication Date: 1995

Practices from Tuvalu, Tonga, Cook Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu ....
Tongan herbal medicine by W. Arthur Whistler
Dewey Number: 615.321 WHI
Publication Date: 1993
Science of Pacific Island peoples: Fauna, flora, food & medicine by John Morrison et al.
Dewey Number: 306.0995 FAU
Publication Date: 1994

Traditional medicine in Tahiti, Eastern Caroline Islands and womens plants and maternity in Vanuatu
Rongoa Maori: A practical guide to traditional Maori medicine by Rob McGowan
Dewey Number: 615.321 MCG
Publication Date: 2009
Māori healing and herbal: New Zealand ethnobotanical sourcebook by Murdoch Riley
Dewey Number: 581.6340993 RIL
Publication Date: 1994

Traditional medicines

Kava - The Pacific elixir by Vincent Lebot et al.
Dewey Number: 615.32325 LEB
Publication Date: 1997
Traditional medicine of the Marshall Islands by Irene J. Taafak et al.
Dewey Number: 615.321099683 TAA
Publication Date: 2006

Books on the internet

Traditional medicine: A global perspective by Steven B. Kayne
Publication Date: 2009

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Subjects: Nursing, Pacific, Pasifika