Healing logics : culture and medicine in modern health belief systems /

"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," "...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Brady, Erika, 1952-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2001]
Subjects:	Traditional medicine. Healing. Medical anthropology. Médecine populaire. Guérison. Anthropologie médicale. Communication en médecine. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Volksgeneeskunde. Genezing. Medische antropologie. Medicine, Traditional. Anthropology, Cultural. Complementary Therapies. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Mental Healing. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Understanding folk medicine / Bonnie B. O'Connor and David J. Hufford
Invisible hospitals : botánicas in ethnic health care / Michael Owen Jones and Patrick A. Polk, with Ysamur Flores-Peña and Roberta J. Evanchuk
Poor Man's Medicine Bag : the empirical folk remedies of Tillman Waggoner / Richard Blaustein, Anthony Cavender, and Jackie Sluder, with comments by Tillman Waggoner
Integrating personal health belief systems : patient-practitioner communication / Shelley R. Adler
Competing logics and the construction of risk / Diane E. Goldstein
New age sweat lodge / William M. Clements
Evergreen : the enduring voice of a nine-hundred-year-old healer / Frances M. Malpezzi
Reflections on the experience of healing : whose logic? Whose experience? / Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Hózhó factor : the logic of Navajo healing / Barre Toelken
Bibliography of folklore and medicine / Michael Owen Jones and Erika Brady, with Jacob Owen and Cara Hoglund.