Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland : : Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals / / ed. by Stuart McClean, Ronnie Moore.
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 crise...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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