Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Title | Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Bauwens |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2016-10-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816535418 |
Four studies examine the use of popular and folk health remedies in different Southwestern ethnic communities.
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Title | Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Holland Spicer |
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Pages | 291 |
Release | 1981 |
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Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Title | Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Holland Spicer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Botany, Medical |
ISBN | 9780816504909 |
Four studies examine the use of popular and folk health remedies in different Southwestern ethnic communities.
Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West
Title | Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West PDF eBook |
Author | Margarita Artschwager Kay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1996-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Are any of these plants dangerous, and do any of them really work? Where did they come from, and where are they available now? How can health-care practitioners gain the confidence of their patients to learn whether they are using alternative medicines for specific illnesses, symptoms, or injuries? Perhaps most intriguing, which of these plants might be waiting to take the place of known antibiotics as pathological organisms become increasingly resistant to modern miracle drugs?
Native Healing Gifts
Title | Native Healing Gifts PDF eBook |
Author | Francis J. Brinker |
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Release | 1993 |
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Gathering Medicines
Title | Gathering Medicines PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Farquhar |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2021-04-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022676379X |
In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation’s registered minorities to “salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate” folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic traditions of southern China. Over a period of six years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority nationality groups in China’s southern mountains, observing how medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified. Gathering Medicines shares their intimate view of how people understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China is a testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.
Medical Pluralism in the Andes
Title | Medical Pluralism in the Andes PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Greenway |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134424515 |
Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamuds pioneering work on Andean medicine, this readable, extensively illustrated and instructive book reflects the diversity of approaches in medical anthropology that have evolved during the past two decades. Capturing the intricacies of health practice within the context of Andean social history, cultural tradition, community and folklore, this is a remarkable and intimate chronicle of Andean culture and everyday life, which will appeal across a wide range of readers, from professional anthropologists to those interested in alternative medicines.