Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
Book Features
- Author: Anthony Cavender
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 080785493X
- ISBN13: 9780807854938
- Condition: New
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Book Overview
>>>In the first thorough exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He gives a total tour of ailments and folk treatment options organized by body systems, as properly as information on medicinal plants, patent medicines, and magico-religious beliefs and practices. He investigates folk healers and their techniques, profiling three living practitioners: an herbalist, a faith healer, and a Native American healer. The book also consists of an appendix of botanicals and a glossary of folk health-related terms.Demonstrating the ongoing interplay in between mainstream scientific medicine and folk medicine, Cavender challenges the standard view of southern Appalachia as an exceptional area isolated from outside get in touch with. His thorough and accessible study reveals how Appalachian folk medicine encompasses such diverse and critical influences as European and Native American culture and America’s transforming health-related and wellness-care surroundings. In performing so, he gives a compelling representation of the cultural history of the region as noticed through its health practices….
