Healing Logics Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

Name: Healing Logics Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems
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ISBN: 9780874214109

ISBN-10: 0874214106

ISBN-13: 9780874214109

Edition: 2001

Authors: Erika Brady

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Introduction




Understanding Folk Medicine



Places and practitioners



Invisible Hospitals: Botanicas in Ethnic Health Care




The Poor Man's Medicine Bag: The Empirical Folk Remedies of Tillman Waggoner



Communication and the interplay of systems



Integrating Personal Health Belief Systems: Patient-Practitioner Communication




Competing Logics and the Construction of Risk



The new age dilemma



The New Age Sweat Lodge




Evergreen: The Enduring Voice of a Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Healer



Taking it in: the observer healed



Reflections on the Experience of Healing: Whose Logic? Whose Experience?




The Hozho Factor: The Logic of Navajo Healing



Further investigation


Bibliography of Folklore and Medicine



Contributors


Index