Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems 1st Edition by Brady, Erika published by Utah State University Press

by Erika Brady

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.

Genres: History Of Medicine

Hardcover

First published January 4, 1802

Reviews

[Denise Kettering · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an interesting collection of essays related to various modes of healing outside of the medical system. The essays demonstrate that most people already use a variety of folk medication, home remedy, and the medical system. The book highlights differences in places and practitioners, competing health paradigms, new age medical appropriations, and some narratives of healing. There is also a substantial bibliography of sources.