TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brún,Tomas De
AU  - Cox,Catherine
AU  - Lee-Treweek,Geraldine
AU  - MacFarlane,Anne
AU  - McClean,Stuart
AU  - Moore,Ronnie
AU  - Philpin,Susan
AU  - Stone,Julie
AU  - Wahlberg,Ayo
TI  - Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals 
T2  - Epistemologies of Healing
SN  - 9781845456726
AV  - GR141 
U1  - 610.941 22/eng
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Alternative medicine
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Healing
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention? --; 2. Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World --; 3. The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland --; 4. Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring --; 5. A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland --; 6. Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain --; 7. Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine --; 8. Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines --; 9. Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace --; 10. Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix --; 11. Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical moment. At the same time biomedicine is under scrutiny, experiencing a number of distinct and multifaceted crises. In this volume the authors draw together cutting edge cross-cultural, interdisciplinary research in Britain and Ireland, focusing on exploring the role and significance of healing practices in diverse local contexts, such as the use of crystals, herbs, cures and charms, potions and lotions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458423
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845458423
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845458423/original
ER  -