Culture & Health
Explore how culture, worldview, and traditional knowledge influence health, illness, and medical practice.
These courses are for professional herbal register members only
Why study these courses
- Understand how worldview shapes health and illness
- Broaden your perspective on traditional and biomedical systems
- Apply cultural awareness more confidently in healthcare practice
Choose a course to explore its content, format, and learning outcomes in more detail.
Influence of Culture on the Perception of Health
Every medical system emerges from a particular time, place, and culture. This course explores how worldview shapes traditional medical systems, including Chinese medicine, and how these differ from modern biomedicine.
Who this is for
Anybody interested in healthcare and/or healthcare professionals
What you'll gain
You will gain insight into the cultural aspect of clinical care and how to address it.
Duration
90 minutes
Course Fee
€60
Irish Healing Traditions
This course traces the development of Irish indigenous medicine from early myth and folklore through to Christianity and the present day. It explores how traditional medical systems evolve over time while preserving core ideas of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Who this is for
Health care professionals, Anthropologists, and Ethnologists
What you'll gain
You will explore Irish indigenous medicine through the centuries and its place within indigenous medicine globally.
Duration
9 hours
Course Fee
€250
My first contact with herbal medicine was through the ICTIM. They taught me important things about herbal science, but they also taught me to see the herbs as a living being, that interacts with people and all the environment. Understanding that herbs are part of the universe and thus we are somehow connected with them, and with everything else, has changed my way of thinking the therapeutic process entirely.
