Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women DoctorsThe stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing. |
Contents
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Medicine Women | 19 |
Introduction | 21 |
The Flower That Speaks in a Pollen Way | 29 |
Apache Weaver of Healing | 47 |
Priestcraft Holder of the Ani Gadoah Clan Tsalagi Cherokee Nation | 57 |
Las Curanderas | 83 |
Introduction | 85 |
Jane Patterson M D | 143 |
Stirling Puck M D | 149 |
Josette Mondanaro M D | 159 |
The Dark Side of Healing | 167 |
Witchcraft in History | 169 |
Three Cultural Views of Witchcraft | 177 |
The Authors Speak | 197 |
Bobette Perrone | 199 |
Curandera y Yerbera | 99 |
Curandera y Sobardora | 107 |
Curandera y Partera | 115 |
Women Doctors | 121 |
Introduction | 123 |
Molly Radford Ward M D | 133 |
H Henrietta Stockel | 213 |
Victoria Krueger | 225 |
Notes | 231 |
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Common terms and phrases
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