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Paperback Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest Book

ISBN: 0816504903

ISBN13: 9780816504909

Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest

"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,...

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Medicine & Ethnic Superstition in the Southwest

From the cover: This book 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.
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