Healing Logics

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Erika Brady, «Healing Logics»

Utah State University Press | ISBN: 0874214106 | (April 1, 2001) | 296 pages | PDF | 1.6 Mb

Healing Logics provides an extensive, multicultural look at folk and alternative beliefs and practices concerning health and medicine and examines the interplay between formal and folk health care. It contains the following original contributions by leading scholars in the fields of medical anthropology and folk medicine:"Understanding Folk Medicine" by Bonnie B. O'Conner and David J. Hufford, "Invisible Hospitals: Botanicas in Ethnic Health Care" by Michael Owen Jones and Patrick A. Polk, with Ysamur Flores-Pena and Roberta J. Evanchuk, "Competing Logics and the Construction of Risk" by Diane E. Goldstein, "The New Age Sweat Lodge" by William M. Clements, "The Hozho Factor: The Logic of Navajo Healing" by Barre Toelken

About the Author

Erika Brady, PhD, holds degrees in folklore from Harvard, UCLA, and Indiana University. She is currently associate professor and director of folk studies and anthropology at Western Kentucky University. A former chaplain associate at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at University of South Alabama and is affiliated with the South Central Kentucky Area Health Education Center. Her book A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography appeared in 1999 (University Press of Mississippi)

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