Herbal and magical medicine [electronic resource] : traditional healing today / edited by James Kirkland, Holly F. Mathews, C.W. Sulivan III, and Karen Baldwin.
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on 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 u...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a regional approach and multidisciplinary perspective / Holly F. Mathews
- Folk medicine in contemporary America / David J. Hufford
- Traditional healing today: moving beyond stereotypes / Richard Blaustein
- Talking fire out of burns: a magico-religious healing tradition / James Kirkland
- Parallels between magico-religious healing and clinical hypnosis therapy / Robert Sammons
- Doctors and root doctors: patients who use both / Holly F. Mathews
- Rootwork from the clinician's perspective / Peter R. Lichstein
- The cultural epidemiology of spiritual heart trouble / Linda A. Camino
- Herbal medicine among the Lumbee Indians / Edward M. Croom, Jr.
- Childbirth education and traditional beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth / C.W. Sullivan, III
- Aesthetic agency in the folk medical practices and remembrances of North Carolinians / Karen Baldwin.