Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland

Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-672-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

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 in diverse local contexts, such as the use of crystals, herbs, cures and charms, potions and lotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Ronnie

McClean, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention?

Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean

Chapter 2. Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World

Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean

Chapter 3. The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland

Catherine Cox

Chapter 4. Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring

Susan Philpin

Chapter 5. A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland

Ronnie Moore

Chapter 6. Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain

Ayo Wahlberg

Chapter 7. Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine

Stuart McClean

Chapter 8. Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines

Anne Macfarlane and Tomas deBrun

Chapter 9. Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace

Geraldine Lee-Treweek

Chapter 10. Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix

Julie Stone

Chapter 11. Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries

Stuart McClean and Ronnie Moore

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

McClean, Stuart
Stuart McClean is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Stuart’s 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.

Moore, Ronnie
Ronnie Moore currently Lectures in Medical Anthropology and Sociology in the Departments of Sociology and Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at University College Dublin. Ronnie’s research interests include health disparities; health, conflict and ethnic identity; and conflict theory.

Ronnie Moore currently Lectures in Medical Anthropology and Sociology in the Departments of Sociology and Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at University College Dublin. Ronnie’s research interests include health disparities; health, conflict and ethnic identity; and conflict theory.