3 Invisible Hospitals: Botánicas in Ethnic Health Care

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue
5. 1 Introduction 3
6. 2 Understanding Folk Medicine 13
7. Places and practitioners
8. 3 Invisible Hospitals: Botánicas in Ethnic Health Care 39
9. 1 The Poor Man’s Medicine Bag: The Empirical Folk Remedies of Tillman Waggoner 88
10. Communication and the interplay of systems
11. 5 Integrating Personal Health Belief Systems: Patient-Practitioner Communication 115
12. 6 Competing Logics and the Construction of Risk 129
13. The new age dilemma
14. 7 The New Age Sweat Lodge 143
15. 8 Evergreen: The Enduring Voice of a Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Healer 163
16. Taking it in: the observer healed
17. 9 Reflections on the Experience of Healing: Whose Logic? Whose Experience? 183
18. 10 The Hózhó Factor: The Logic of Navajo Healing 197
19. Further investigation
20. Bibliography 211
21. Contributors 278
22. Index 284