Healing logics : culture and medicine in modern health belief systems / / edited by Erika Brady.
Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complem...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2001. ©2001. |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Introduction; 2 Understanding Folk Medicine; Places and Practitioners; 3 Invisible Hospitals: Botánicas in Ethnic Health Care; 4 The Poor Man's Medicine Bag: The Empirical Folk Remedies of Tillman Waggoner; Communication and the Interplay of Systems; 5 Integrating Personal Health Belief Systems: Patient-Practitioner Communication; 6 Competing Logics and the Construction of Risk; The New Age Dilemma; 7 The New Age Sweat Lodge; 8 Evergreen: The Enduring Voice of a Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Healer; Taking It In: The Observer Healed
- 9 Reflections on the Experience of Healing:Whose Logic? Whose Experience?10 The Hózhó Factor: The Logic of Navajo Healing; Further Investigation; Bibliography: Folklore and Medicine; Contributors; Index