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Women as healers : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Carol Shepherd McClain. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1989.
xiv, 274 p. ; 23 cm. Content notes : Reinterpreting women in healing roles / Carol Shepherd McClain -- The forgotten healers : women as family healers in an Andean Indian community / Ruthbeth Finerman -- It's all in a name : local-level female healers in Sri Lanka / Carolyn Nordstrom -- The management of reproduction in an egalitarian society / Carole H. Browner -- Mothering and the practice of "balm" in Jamaica / William Wedenoja -- The socioreligious role of the Christian Science practitioner / Margery Fox -- Healing with mother metaphors : Serbian conjurers' word magic / Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern -- Old ghosts and ungrateful children : a Korean shaman's story / Laurel Kendall -- Becoming a Puerto Rican espiritista : life history of a female healer / Merrill Singer and Roberto Garcia. Mystical black power : the calling to diviner-mediumship in Southern Africa / Edward C. Green -- Women's roles and women healers in contemporary rural and urban Benin / Carolyn Sargent -- Sisterhood and professionalization : a case study of the American lay midwife / Margaret Reid. 0813513707 : $16.00 (est.) 9780813513706 0813513693 (hard) : $36.00 (est.) 9780813513690 (hard) * Women healers - Cross-cultural studies. Medical anthropology. Traditional medicine - Cross-cultural studies. Anthropologie médicale. Guérisseuses - Études transculturelles. Médecine populaire - Études transculturelles. Geneeskunde. Vrouwen. Vrouwelijke artsen. Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Medicine, Traditional. Women. * McClain, Carol Shepherd, * Title