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Medical ethnomusicology is a subfield of ethnomusicology, which according to UCLA professor Timothy Rice is "the study of how and why humans are musical." [1] Medical ethnomusicology, similar to medical anthropology, uses music-making, musical sound, and noise to study human health, wellness, healing and disease prevention including, but not limited to, music as violence.
Though 80–90 percent of cancer pain can be eliminated or well controlled, nearly half of all people with cancer pain in the developed world and more than 80 percent of people with cancer worldwide receive less than optimal care. [28] Cancer changes over time, and pain management needs to reflect this.
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound.
David McAllester was born the youngest of four siblings on 6 August 1916 to Maude Park McAllester and Dr. Ralph W. McAllester [7] in Everett, Massachusetts.McAllester held a fascination with Native Americans and Native American culture from a young age, and he also claimed to have "remote Narragansett heritage."
Pain & Palliative oncology: focuses on treatment of end stage cancer to help alleviate pain and suffering. [26] Molecular oncology: focuses on molecular diagnostic methods in oncology. [27] Nuclear medicine oncology: focuses on diagnosis and treatment of cancer with radiopharmaceuticals.
Sean Williams (born 1959, Berkeley, California) is an ethnomusicologist who teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.. Her primary areas of teaching include music, Irish studies, and Asian studies; she leads the Sundanese music ensembles Gamelan Degung Girijaya (Enduring Mountain Gamelan) and Angklung Buncis Sukahejo.
Ramón Campbell Batista (March 9, 1911, in Quilpué [1] – November 13, 2000, in Viña del Mar [1]) was a Chilean medical doctor, ethnomusicologist, and composer. He conducted important anthropological research on the traditional music of the Rapa Nui people.
Theodore Craig Levin (born 1951) is an American ethnomusicologist. He is a professor of music at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and earned his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Levin has focused his research on the people of the Balkans, Siberia, and Central Asia. [1]