"Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest" explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
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"Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest" explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
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Very Good in Acceptable jacket. Size: 0x0x0; 1977 first edition University of Arizona Press (Tucson, Arizona), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall green cloth hardcover in publisher's dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, index, viii, 291 pp. A very good to near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a mildly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket with an ink mark (remainder mark? ) to front cover but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP26~ [2.0P] Health is a major concern to all people. In this volume, four writers examine the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities to further understand the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Edward H. Spicer's informative Introduction sets the stage for comparing 'popular' and 'scientific' medicine. 'Graduates of medical schools have been taught that their body of knowledge is the one true medical tradition. The world has many medicines and thousands of practitioners who do not believe that 'Western' medicine is a universal cure-all. These practitioners may be as certain that what they practice is the one true medical tradition, ' says Spicer. In the communities studied, the belief is that illnesses may be caused by overwork, witchcraft or sin, and treatment may include herbs, prayer, or massage. Practitioners are successful and respected although they are not licenses in the legal sense. In these alternative medical traditions, 'Western' medicine may find a key to new growth and effectiveness. Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest is a fascinating look at commonly practiced arts that will interest not only ethnic and health services specialists but all those interested in cultural traditions.
