Folk healing and Health Care practices in Britain and Ireland
- Book ID:
- 7770
- Title:
- Folk healing and Health Care practices in Britain and Ireland
- Subtitle:
- Stethescopes, wands and crystals
- Author:
- 'McClean, Stuart', 'Moore, Ronnie', 'VARIOUS'
- ISBN number:
- 9781845456726
- Publisher name:
- Berghahn Books
- Place of publication:
- USA
- Edition number:
- First
- Book type:
- Hardback
- First edition date:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 268
- Dewey decimal number:
- 615.852 VAR
- Dust jacket:
- No
- Volume number:
- Epistemologies of Healing Volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Photographs:
- No
- Illustrations:
- No
- Bibliography:
- Yes
- Height (cm):
- 24
- Width (cm):
- 15.5
- Notes:
Edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention?
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McCleanChapter 2. Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McCleanChapter 3. The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Catherine CoxChapter 4. Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring
Susan PhilpinChapter 5. A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland
Ronnie MooreChapter 6. Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain
Ayo WahlbergChapter 7. Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine
Stuart McCleanChapter 8. Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines
Anne Macfarlane and Tomas deBrunChapter 9. Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace
Geraldine Lee-TreweekChapter 10. Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix
Julie StoneChapter 11. Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries
Stuart McClean and Ronnie Moore