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Subject(s)

• Traditional medicine—Great Britain—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions [Browse]
• Traditional medicine—Ireland—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions [Browse]
• Alternative medicine—Great Britain [Browse]
• Alternative medicine—Ireland [Browse]
• Healing—Great Britain [Browse]
• Healing—Ireland [Browse]
• Ireland [Browse]

Related name

• Moore, Ronnie (Ronald George) [Browse]
• McClean, Stuart [Browse]

Series

• Epistemologies of healing ; v. 8. [More in this series]
• Epistemologies of healing ; v. 8 [More in this series]

Summary note

• "'This is a fascinating and beautiful organized and written manuscript'-Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis.
• 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 ̮such as the use of crystals, herbs, cures and charms, potions and lotions ̮in diverse local contexts.
• Ronnie Moore currently Lectures in Medical Anthropology and Sociology in the Departments of Sociology and Public Health, Medicine and Epidemiology at University College Dublin. His research interests include health disparities; health, conflict and ethnic identity; and conflict theory.
• Stuart McClean is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His research interests include the resurgence of alternative medicine and healing practices in Western societies, the role of creative arts in health and the global dimensions surrounding health. "--Book jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : Folk healing in contemporary Britain and Ireland : revival, revitalisation or reinvention?
• Folk healing and a post-scientific world
• The medical marketplace and medical tradition in nineteenth-century Ireland
• Folk healing in rural Wales : the use of wool measuring
• A general practice, a country practice : the cure, the charm and informal healing in northern Ireland
• Rescuing folk remedies : ethnoknowledge and the reinvention of indigenous herbal medicine in Britain
• Crystal and spiritual healing in northern England : folk-inspired systems of medicine
• Medical pluralism in the republic of Ireland : biomedics as ethnomedicines
• Born to it and then pushed out of it : folk healing in the new complementary and alternative medicine marketplace
• Beyond legislation : why chicken soup and regulation don't mix
• Epilogue : Towards authentic medicine : bodies and boundaries.

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ISBN

• 9781845456726 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 1845456726 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2010018158

OCLC

456177463

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