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Herbal and magical medicine : traditional healing today / edited by James Kirkland ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--Virginia.
- Traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine--North Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region's folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine.The authors provide illuminating commentary on the ma
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-91978-4
- 9786612919787
- 0-8223-8258-X
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