| Description |
viii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Publication of the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology ; 4
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Publications of the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology ; 4.
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| Note |
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology in cooperation with the Medical History Division of the UCLA School of Medicine and the Society for the History of Medical Science, Los Angeles." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Folk medicine and history / Charles H. Talbot -- Madstone / Thomas R. Forbes -- Role of animals in infant feeding / Samuel X. Radbill -- Mole in folk medicine: a survey from Indic antiquity to Modern America I / Wayland D. Hand -- Miraculous restoration of lost body parts: relationship to the phantom limb phenomenon and to limb-burial superstitions and practices / Douglas B. Price -- A new approach to the "old hag": the nightmare tradition reexamined / David J. Hufford -- Interrelationship of scientific and folk medicine in United States of America since 1850 / Bruno Gebhard -- Shamanic equilibrium: balance and meditation in known and unknown worlds / Barbara G. Myerhoff -- California Indian Shamanism and folk curing / Lowell John Bean -- American Indian foods used as medicine / Virgil J. Vogel -- Communication networks and information hierarchies in Native American folk medicine: Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico / Richard I. Ford -- Plant hypnotics among the North American Indians / William A. Emboden, Jr. -- Medical folklore in Spanish America / Francisco Guerra -- Role of the Curandero in the Mexican American folk medicine system in West Texas / Joe S. Graham -- Some aspects of folk medicine among Spanish-speaking people in Southern Arizona / Byrd Howell Granger -- A survey of folk medicine in French Canada from early times to the present / Luc Lacourcière -- Folk medicine in French Louisiana / Elizabeth Brandon -- Hohman and Romanus: origins and diffusions of the Pennsylvania German Powwow manual / Don Yoder -- Folk medicine and sympathy healing among the Amish / John A. Hostetler -- Other kind of doctor: conjure and magic in Black American folk medicine / Bruce Jackson -- Birthmarks and psychic imprinting of babies in Utah folk medicine / Austin E. Fife -- Healing in a balmyard: the practice of folk healing in Jamaica, W.I. / Leonard E. Barrett -- Doing what, with which, and to whom?: the relationship of case history accounts to curing / Michael Owen Jones -- Texas and Southwest medical lore in the Anderson Collection, University of Houston / John Q. Anderson. |
| Subject |
Traditional medicine -- North America -- Congresses.
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Traditional medicine. |
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North America. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hand, Wayland D. (Wayland Debs), 1907-1986.
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University of California, Los Angeles. Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology.
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University of California, Los Angeles. Medical History Division.
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Society for the History of Medical Science.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: UCLA Conference on American Folk Medicine, 1973. American folk medicine. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976 (OCoLC)568721611 |
| ISBN |
0520029410 |
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9780520029415 |
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