Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Alternative & Complementary Medicine

The 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...

Each year hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer, and more and more frequently, women are turning to alternative treatments to take control of their illnesses and their lives. Information, however, has been scarce for women navigating through conventional and unconventional medicine. Research funding continues to support traditional cancer therapies. Women Confront Cancer declares the need for new, less toxic therapies and diagnostic procedures.

For the first time, Women Confront Cancer unites the voices of women leaders who have breast, cervical,...

Contents:

• "The Art and Science of Medicine," Anton Dekkers
• "A Philosophical Foundation of Anthroposophical Medicine," Erik Baars
• "Developing Dynamic Perception," Guus van der Bie
• "Dynamic Morphology and Embryology," Jaap van der Wal
• "Polarities: Projective Geometry," Ferdie Amons
• "Metamorphosis: Essence and Manifestation," Guus van der Bie
• "Observing Nature and Studying the Elements," Guus van der Bie
• "The Anthroposophical View of the Human Being," Arie Bos...

In order to examine the importance of alternative medicine to the African American population, this book focuses on the African American health belief system and the treatment strategies often used and documented. This book includes a cultural-historical view of alternative medicine's use within the African American community and shows how it was an integral part of African American culture.

The author highlights a number of studies that examine alternative and complementary therapies associated with specific diseases among African Americans. Case studies are presented to show the types...