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Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland : Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
8 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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