3 Invisible Hospitals: Botánicas in Ethnic Health Care

Kapitel in diesem Buch

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