Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors - Couverture souple

Perrone, Bobette; Krueger, Victoria; Stockel, H. Henrietta

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806125128 ISBN 13 : 9780806125121

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1993

Synopsis

The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths.This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.

A propos du livre

From Publishers Weekly :

"When we do not communicate, we are ill," asserts Navajo medicine woman Annie Kahn. Her belief that interpersonal relationships, good or bad communal energies, affect one's physical health is echoed by Hispanic curanderas , or women healers, interviewed for this cross-cultural report. Both the Amerindian and Hispanic traditions agree also that the transgressing of spiritual laws causes illness. Most curanderas , it seems, believe from an early age that they were predestined to channel the healing graces of God or the saints, using medicinal plants, herbs, charms and rituals. Counterposed to these traditions are what the authors call "AMA American Medical Association medicine," yet the white professional women physicians interviewed here appear to be moving beyond a mechanistic, clinical approach. Instead of dissecting female healers under an anthropological microscope, the authors of this rewarding survey approach traditional medicine as a living entity with its own internal laws. Perrone is a photographer, Stockel a New Mexico Human Services administrator, Krueger a psychologist. Photos.
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From Book News, Inc. :

Portraits of 10 women healers working in native American, Hispanic, and AMA traditions. Based primarily on interviews with the subjects. Compares the differences and similarities of philosophical approach, spiritual and emotional elements, techniques, and relationships to patients and communities. An advocacy for "alternative" medicine rather than a rigorous scientific study. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0806125128
• ISBN 13: 9780806125121
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272