Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland : : Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals / / ed. by Ronnie Moore, Stuart McClean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brún, Tomas De,; Cox, Catherine,; Lee-Treweek, Geraldine,; MacFarlane, Anne,; McClean, Stuart,; Moore, Ronnie,; Philpin, Susan,; Stone, Julie,; Wahlberg, Ayo,
• HerausgeberIn: McClean, Stuart,; Moore, Ronnie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention? --; 2. Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World --; 3. The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland --; 4. Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring --; 5. A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland --; 6. Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain --; 7. Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine --; 8. Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines --; 9. Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace --; 10. Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix --; 11. Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845458423; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845458423
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ronnie Moore, Stuart McClean.

Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical moment. At the same time biomedicine is under scrutiny, experiencing a number of distinct and multifaceted crises. In this volume the authors draw together cutting edge cross-cultural, interdisciplinary research in Britain and Ireland, focusing on exploring the role and significance of healing practices in diverse local contexts, such as the use of crystals, herbs, cures and charms, potions and lotions.