Herbal and magical medicine : traditional healing today / edited by James Kirkland [and others].

Other author Kirkland, James, 1942-
Format Book
PublicationDurham : Duke University Press, 1997.
Copyright Date©1992
Descriptionxi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: a regional approach and multidisciplinary perspective / Holly F. Mathews -- Folk medicine in contemporary America / David J. Hufford -- Traditional healing today: moving beyond stereotypes / Richard Blaustein -- Talking fire out of burns: a magico-religious healing tradition / James Kirkland -- Parallels between magico-religious healing and clinical hypnosis therapy / Robert Sammons -- Doctors and root doctors: patients who use both / Holly F. Mathews -- Rootwork from the clinician's perspective / Peter R. Lichstein -- The cultural epidemiology of spiritual heart trouble / Linda A. Camino -- Herbal medicine among the Lumbee Indians / Edward M. Croom, Jr. -- Childbirth education and traditional beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth / C.W. Sullivan, III -- Aesthetic agency in the folk medical practices and remembrances of North Carolinians / Karen Baldwin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Reproduction noteReprint 1997 Third printing.
Issued in other formOnline version: Herbal and magical medicine. Durham : Duke University Press, 1992
ISBN9780822312178
ISBN0822312174

Availability

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Laupus Books - Stacks WB 50 AN8 H534 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold