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1. Folk Medicine in Contemporary America
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: A Regional Approach and Multidisciplinary Perspective 1
- 1. Folk Medicine in Contemporary America 14
- 2. Traditional Healing Today: Moving Beyond Stereotypes 32
- 3. Talking Fire out of Burns: A Magico-Religious Healing Tradition 41
- 4. Parallels Between Magico-Religious Healing and Clinical Hypnosis Therapy 53
- 5. Doctors and Root Doctors: Patients Who Use Both 68
- 6. Rootwork from the Clinician's Perspective 99
- 7. The Cultural Epidemiology of Spiritual Heart Trouble 118
- 8. Herbal Medicine Among the Lumbee Indians 137
- 9. Childbirth Education and Traditional Beliefs About Pregnancy and Childbirth 170
- 10. Aesthetic Agency in the Folk Medical Practices and Remembrances of North Carolinians 180
- Bibliography 197
- Contributors 234
- Index 237
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: A Regional Approach and Multidisciplinary Perspective 1
- 1. Folk Medicine in Contemporary America 14
- 2. Traditional Healing Today: Moving Beyond Stereotypes 32
- 3. Talking Fire out of Burns: A Magico-Religious Healing Tradition 41
- 4. Parallels Between Magico-Religious Healing and Clinical Hypnosis Therapy 53
- 5. Doctors and Root Doctors: Patients Who Use Both 68
- 6. Rootwork from the Clinician's Perspective 99
- 7. The Cultural Epidemiology of Spiritual Heart Trouble 118
- 8. Herbal Medicine Among the Lumbee Indians 137
- 9. Childbirth Education and Traditional Beliefs About Pregnancy and Childbirth 170
- 10. Aesthetic Agency in the Folk Medical Practices and Remembrances of North Carolinians 180
- Bibliography 197
- Contributors 234
- Index 237
