TY  - BOOK
AU  - McClain,Carol Shepherd
TI  - Women as healers: cross-cultural perspectives 
SN  - 0813513707 :
AV  - GN296 .W65 1989
U1  - 610/.88042 19
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Women healers
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Anthropologie médicale
KW  - Guérisseuses
KW  - Études transculturelles
KW  - Médecine populaire
KW  - Geneeskunde
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Vrouwelijke artsen
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
KW  - Medicine, Traditional
KW  - Women
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/womenashealerscr00mcclrich
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2040327M
ER  -