Example videos (Read the course description below):

IKSH1, Prof. Yingyong Paisooksantivatana, Traditional Medicines and traditional medicinal plants https://youtu.be/Hq33COu7u9A

IKSH2, Prof. Chutatip Umavijani, Buddhist Meditation https://youtu.be/I43bHrP3VG4

IKSH3, Prof. Angelica Baylon, Traditional healing practices of indigenous people in the Philippines https://youtu.be/2hMz_AG7Pxg

IKSH4, Prof. Yingyong Paisooksantivatana, Biodiversity, Traditional medicines and plants https://youtu.be/tQBC1unolRg

IKSH5, Prof. Irina Pollard, International Perspectives on Bridging the Socio-Economic Gap Between Poverty and Transgenerational Inequity https://youtu.be/zR8O9qqYR2s

IKSH6, Prof. Neoh Choo Aun, Traditional knowledge, Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Austronesian Traditional Medicine and East-West-Native Integrated Future Global Medicine –Neoh Choo Aun https://youtu.be/3i2sicNKhks

IKSH7, Prof. Mihaela Serbulea, Traditional Medicine, Policy and Examples (including Grand Canyon)

https://youtu.be/yKhScmUrc8Q

IKSH8, Prof. John Kabudi, Public Health Care Communication and Advocacy Systems  https://youtu.be/b2RDmj3yvvU

IKSH9, Prof. Mayashree Chinsamy, Triple heritage of traditional medicine in South Africa https://youtu.be/vZHkNNxnsjU

IKSH10,  Prof. Mayashree Chinsamy, The Ethical Challenges of African Traditional Medical Practice in South Africa  https://youtu.be/0kW2FM1ugJA

IKSH11, Prof. Mayashree Chinsamy, The Comparative Universality of Ubuntu Ethical Values as an African Indigenous Philosophy in Public Healthcare https://youtu.be/A3m1tGZ7Inc

IKSH12, Prof. Hassan Kaya, The African Indigenous Philosophy of Ubuntu as Public Healthcare Policy https://youtu.be/BVxS31gvvTs

IKSH13, Prof. Darryl Macer, Linkages between Bioethics, Public Health Ethics & Environmental Ethics https://youtu.be/pJivKJzsJuc

IKSH14, Prof Mayashree Chinsamy, The Impact of Contemporary African Traditional Medicine Practices on Environmental Ethics  https://youtu.be/cq4PaORwk1k

IKSH15, Prof. Hassan Kaya, Global Ethical Problems Arising in Evidence-based Traditional Medicines: comparative Cases from African and Asian countries https://youtu.be/PvGlT2kYhCk

IKSH16, Prof. Dr. Yingyong Paisooksantivatana, Medicinal Plants walk at the Peace Park of the  International Peace and Development Ethics Center @ Kaeng Krachan https://youtu.be/7bN--yvBoOI

IKSH17, Prof. Mihaela Serbulea, Indigenous Concepts of Health in Europe https://youtu.be/mS4dGxs2v64

IKSH18, Prof. Dr. , Neoh Choo Aun, Should Pain Management Medical Education and Professionalism Include Teaching of East-West-Native Integrated Medicine?  https://youtu.be/M3h3uWZWf3s 

IKSH19, Prof. Angelica M Baylon, Ethics of Aeta Traditional Healers in the Philippines https://youtu.be/9KShsOSSknA

IKSH20, Prof. Darryl Macer and Prof. Mayashree Chinswamy, Plants & Medicines at Sireeruckhachati Nature Learning Park, Thailand  https://youtu.be/g-OEFwN6_84

IKSH21, Prof. Lian Bighorse , Native Youth Empowerment, Native Youth Health; and Apache Stronghold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwUnqiDAwBM

IKSH22, Prof. Bal Ram Singh, Vedic View of Health  and its Values  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGldht0o05o

IKSH23, Prof. Anke Weisheit, Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Tertiary Institutions: The Case of Traditional Medicine in Uganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdjhPDZxHRw

IKSH24, Dr. Endreya McCabe, Challenges and Opportunities in the Indian Health Service https://youtu.be/K7QSlNIYaVQ

Enrolled Students of AUSN receive the AUSN Video lecture Archive and Attendance Sheet to record which videos they have watched.

AUSN as an intellectual forum for intercultural dialogue upholds the value of academic freedom for all professors and students, and the views expressed in the videos are not those of AUSN.

The above videos are a selection of the total video archive of AUSN that supplements the contact hours provided by in-person lectures, group skype sessions, and other supervised contact at AUSN.

Anyone can request to try out a live AUSN class for free by writing to Dr. Darryl Macer, Provost, AUSN; Email: provost@ausn.info

For countries that do not have youtube access, a original file can be shared with enrolled AUSN students.

Competencies:

1)     Ability to apply the major concepts, theories, philosophies of IKS-based medical and health care systems in a specific context;

2)     Ability to conceptualise IKS research problems, construct research designs, collect and analyse data in the context of medical and health care systems; 

3)     Critical and effective engagement with multiple discourses and sources of knowledge in IKS-based medical and health care systems;

4)     Apply indigenous value systems in a historical, contemporary and philosophical context based on ethical and professional practice related to medical and health care systems;

5)     Access, articulate and disseminate IKS-related information on medical and health care systems from multiple sources to solve problems experienced by a range of audience;

Take accountability and responsibility on decision-making and use of resources related to IKS-based medical and health care systems. 

Course Objectives: The objectives of this module are:  (i) to promote knowledge and skills among students  of  medical and health sciences on the holistic approach of  Indigenous  Knowledge  Systems (IKS) as a source of innovation that supports healthy families and sustainable livelihoods for communities; (ii) to  empower students  and researchers of  medical and health care  sciences with knowledge  and skills of preserving indigenous knowledge to ensure that communities receive fair and sustained recognition and, where appropriate, financial remuneration for the use of their medical and health care-based knowledge. 

Course Purpose: The aims and objectives of this module include the following: (i) to consolidate and deepen/enrich students’ knowledge and skills in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)-based medical and health sciences; (ii)  to examine misconceptions created and propagated by Eurocentricism on traditional medical and health care practices by inculcating knowledge and awareness among students and researchers of medical and health sciences on the efficacy of indigenous health care systems as knowledge systems on their own merit, i.e. with their own ways of knowing, knowledge production and value systems; (iii) to prepare postgraduate students of medical and health sciences with a multi-inter-trans-disciplinary approach including involvement of indigenous knowledge holders and practitioners in research and curriculum delivery. 

Topics that are covered:

1)     Comparative Histories and Philosophies of Indigenous Medical and Health Care  Systems

2)     Chinese Medical Knowledge

3)     Indian Medical Knowledge

4)     African Medical Knowledge

5)     Pre-Western American Medical Knowledge

6)     Nature and Patterns of Indigenous Medical and Health  Care  Systems

7)     Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research Methodologies in  Medical and  Health  Care

8)     Gender Issues  in Indigenous Medical and Health  Care  Systems

9)     Comparative  Indigenous  Communication  Systems in Medicine and Health  Care

10)   National and International Policies  on Traditional Medicine and Health  Care

11)   Intellectual Property Rights  and Traditional  Medicine

12)   Concepts of Equity and Justice in Traditional Medicine and Health  Care

Bioethical Implications of Traditional Medicine and Health  Care