Women as healers : [electronic resource] cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Carol Shepherd McClain.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-267) and index.

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.