Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors

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The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.

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Preface (p.xi)
Acknowledgments (p.xvii)
Bridges : an introduction (p.3)
Part One: Medicine women
Introduction (p.21)
Annie Kahn: the flower that speaks in a pollen way (p.29)
Tu Moonwalker : Apache weaver of healing (p.47)
Dhyani Ywahoo : priestcraft holder of the Ani Gadoah clan, Tsalagi (Cherokee) nation (p.57)
Part two: Las Curanderas
Introduction (p.85)
Savinita Herrera : Curandera y Yerbera (p.99)
Gregorita Rodriguez : Curandera y Sobardora (p.107)
Jesusita Aragon : Curandera y Partera (p.115)
Part three: Women doctors
Introduction (p.123)
Molly Radford Ward, M.D. (p.133)
Jane Patterson, M.D. (p.143). Stirling Puck, M.D. (p.149)
Josette Mondanaro, M.D. (p.159)
Part four: The dark side of healing
Witchcraft in history (p.169)
Inside the darkness : three cultural views of witchcraft (p.177)
Part five: The authors speak
Talking and listening : Bobette Perrone (p.199)
A philosophy of comprehensive healing : H. Henrietta Stockel (p.213)
Reflections : Victoria Krueger (p.225)
Notes (p.231)
Bibliography (p.239)
Index (p.245).

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9780806125121
9780806122007

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