Research Catalog

Title

Curing and healing : medical anthropology in global perspective / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.

Author

Strathern, Andrew

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Stewart, Pamela J.

Description

vii, 224 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Also discusses: breast milk, conception, disease, menstrual blood, pluralism, pollution, pregnancy and sorcery.

Subject

• Anthropology
• Medicine, Traditional
• Medical anthropology
• Rites and ceremonies
• Healing
• Traditional medicine
• Recovery of Function
• Anthropology, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction. -- 2. Regimens of treatment: humoral systems [humoral medicine in Latin America; Japan and medicine, kanpo medicine; India ayurvedic medicine]. -- 3. Humoral systems: the Melpa and Duna of Papua New Guinea. -- 4. Curers and healers: the Melpa. -- 5. Duna ritual practices and healing [witchcraft]. -- 6. Medical pluralism [Huli and Wiru]. -- 7. Illness and emotions [spitiual healers in Mexico]. -- 8. Ethnopsychiatry [aborigines of Australia]. -- 9. Spiritual healing: charismatic Catholics [Charismatic Catholic Renewal]. -- 10. Airs, waters places [malaria]. -- 11 Fertility and reproduction. -- 12. Communication: doctors and patients. -- 13. Critical medical anthropology. -- 14. Conclusions: curing and healing.

ISBN

0890899428

LCCN

^^^99013187^

OCLC

40838642

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library