Chapters in this book

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