1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. 1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention? 1
5. 2. Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World 22
6. 3. The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland 55
7. 4. Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring 80
8. 5. A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland 104
9. 6. Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain 130
10. 7. Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine 156
11. 8. Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines 181
12. 9. Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace 201
13. 10. Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix 226
14. 11. Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries 254
15. Notes on Contributors 273
16. Index 275