Healing logics : culture and medicine in modern health belief systems

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Label

Healing logics : culture and medicine in modern health belief systems

Title remainder

culture and medicine in modern health belief systems

Statement of responsibility

edited by Erika Brady

Contributor

• Brady, Erika, 1952-

Subject

• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• Communication en médecine
• Guérison
• Healing
• Medical anthropology
• Medical anthropology
• Electronic books
• Volksgeneeskunde
• Complementary Therapies
• Traditional medicine
• Médecine populaire
• Medische antropologie
• Traditional medicine
• Healing
• Mental Healing
• Anthropologie médicale
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Medicine, Traditional
• Genezing

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine--such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues--than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact--in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine."--Publisher's description

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

398/.353

Index

index present

LC call number

GR880

LC item number

.H43 2001eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2001 I-703
• WB 880

NLM item number

H4348 2001