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9780822312086

Herbal and Magical Medicine

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822312086

  • ISBN10:

    0822312085

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-02-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Herbal and Magical Medicine draws upon perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo-, and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region's folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine.the authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: A Regional Approach and Multidisciplinary Perspectivep. 1
Folk Medicine in Contemporary Americap. 14
Traditional Healing Today: Moving Beyond Stereotypesp. 32
Talking Fire out of Burns: A Magico-Religious Healing Traditionp. 41
Parallels Between Magico-Religious Healing and Clinical Hypnosis Therapyp. 53
Doctors and Root Doctors: Patients Who Use Bothp. 68
Rootwork from the Clinician's Perspectivep. 99
The Cultural Epidemiology of Spiritual Heart Troublep. 118
Herbal Medicine Among the Lumbee Indiansp. 137
Childbirth Education and Traditional Beliefs About Pregnancy and Childbirthp. 170
Aesthetic Agency in the Folk Medical Practices and Remembrances of North Caroliniansp. 180
Bibliographyp. 197
Contributorsp. 234
Indexp. 237
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