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Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland : Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals / ed. by Stuart McClean, Ronnie Moore.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemologies of Healing ; 8Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845456726
  • 9781845458423
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.941 22/eng
LOC classification:
  • GR141
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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