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Herbal and magical medicine : traditional healing today /
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a regional approach and multidisciplinary perspective / Holly F. Mathews
- Folk medicine in contemporary America / David J. Hufford
- Traditional healing today: moving beyond stereotypes / Richard Blaustein
- Talking fire out of burns: a magico-religious healing tradition / James Kirkland
- Parallels between magico-religious healing and clinical hypnosis therapy / Robert Sammons
- Doctors and root doctors: patients who use both / Holly F. Mathews
- Rootwork from the clinician's perspective / Peter R. Lichstein
- The cultural epidemiology of spiritual heart trouble / Linda A. Camino
- Herbal medicine among the Lumbee Indians / Edward M. Croom, Jr.
- Childbirth education and traditional beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth / C.W. Sullivan, III
- Aesthetic agency in the folk medical practices and remembrances of North Carolinians / Karen Baldwin.