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Dear Readers :

I am a Doctor of Medical Science specialized in the Finnish ethnomedicine. During my studies in the Ostrobothnian bonesetters in Finland in 1980's and 1990's, I was  surprised of the practicality and beauty of the working of some of them. Therefore I wanted to find a way to present their work and their hand movements in a more distinct way than what I could find presented in the relevant literature. So I developed a pictorial method to study narrow gauge 8 mm movie films. At that time I had recorded with the help of these practical - but today almost forgotten - colourful and impressive films these common folk therapists' collaborations with their patiens. 

The details of the study are presented for the first time in my medical thesis "Presentation of  bonesetter-patient collaboration through positiographical cinemanalysis" (Hernesniemi 1999). Some of the essential details of the method are presented in my blog. "Medial prehension" method - as I call it and present it - is published internationally and in internet here for the first time in English.  These drawing and writing method details are not mentioned in my thesis. 

It is my plan to publish some of my scientific ideas - mostly in ethnomedicine, but from other areas too -  now and then in this blog.

I hope the things I present here are interesting for you. I hope I'll get some comments and questions from you too ! 


With best regards

Antti Samuli Hernesniemi
Dr Med Sci
Master-line student in musicology
Turku
Finland

I am studying musicology at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku. Those interested in my music please visit :





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