Healing Cultures

Author : Robert Spitzer
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149227X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Culture written by Robert Spitzer and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute. This book is one of the key resources used for this program. This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons' unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good.

Author : Uwe P. Gielen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113561377X
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing written by Uwe P. Gielen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, as well as physical distress, is a heritage from our hominid ancestors; it has been experienced by every group of human beings since our emergence as a species. And every known culture has developed systems of conceptualization and intervention for addressing it. The editors have brought together leading psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and others to consider the interaction of psychosocial, biological, and cultural variables as they influence the assessment of health and illness and the course of therapy. The volume includes broadly conceived theoretical and survey chapters; detailed descriptions of specific healing traditions in Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Arab world. The Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing is a unique resource, containing information about Western therapies practiced in non-Western cultures, non-Western therapies practiced both in their own context and in the West.

Author : David R. Kinsley
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health, Healing, and Religion written by David R. Kinsley and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicitly dealing with the religious aspects of healing and healers, this unique and intriguing book examines illness, healing, and religion in cross-cultural perspective by looking at how sickness is understood and treated in a wide variety of cultures. Centered around three principle themes, the text: A) illustrates how crucial it is to frame illness in a meaningful context in every culture and how this process is almost always bound up with religious, spiritual, and moral concerns; B) shows how many beliefs, strategies, and practices that characterize traditional cultures also appear in Christianity, putting healing in the Christian tradition in a broad, rational context, and; C) discusses the continuities between traditional, explicitly religious, and modern medical cultures -- demonstrating that many features of modern scientific medicine are symbolic and ritualistic, and that many aspects and practices of modern medicine are similar to healing as seen in traditional, pre-scientific medical cultures. For those in the religious, anthropological and medical professions.

Author : Cheryl Mattingly
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218253
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing written by Cheryl Mattingly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable collection. . . . The essays in the volume are all fresh, the result of recent work, and the opening chapter by Garro and Mattingly places the current trend in narrative analysis in historical context, explaining its diverse origins (and constructs) in a range of disciplines."—Shirley Lindenbaum, author of Kuru Sorcery "A good place to consult the narrative turn in medical anthropology. Thick with the richness and diversity and stubborn resistance to interpretations of human stories of illness. An anthropological antidote for too narrow a framing of the complex tangle of ways-of-being and ways-of-telling that make medicine a space of indelibly human experiences." —Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Narratives

Author : David Landy
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Disease, and Healing written by David Landy and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: An historical perspective of disease and healing practices as related to culture is addressed in 57 papers for students and professionals in the medical and health fields. The papers are organized among 14 major themes, addressing: medical anthropology; paleopathology; disease ecology and epidemiology; medical systems and theories relative to disease and therapy; sociocultural influences and ethnic practices in disease diagnosis; sorcery and witchcraft; disease prevention via social controls; surgery practices and population control in the preindustrial era; cultural and environmental factors relative to stress, pain, and death; cultural influences on behavioral disorders; the special role of the inflicted in society; and current primitive healing practices and the impact of sociocultural change on such practices. (wz).

Author : Na Na
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349620678
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Cultures written by Na Na and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113707647X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Cultures written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies - bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean.

Author : Penelope Gouk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351556924
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts written by Penelope Gouk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people use music to heal themselves and others? Are the healing powers of music universal or culturally specific? The essays in this volume address these two central questions as to music?s potential as a therapeutic source. The contributors approach the study of music healing from social, cultural and historical backgrounds, and in so doing provide perspectives on the subject which complement the wealth of existing literature by practitioners. The forms of music therapy explored in the book exemplify the well-being that can be experienced as a result of participating in any type of musical or artistic performance. Case studies include examples from the Bolivian Andes, Africa and Western Europe, as well as an assessment of the role of Islamic traditions in Western practices. These case studies introduce some new, and possibly unfamiliar models of musical healing to music therapists, ethnomusicologists and anthropologists. The book contributes to our understanding of the transformative and healing roles that music plays in different societies, and so enables us better to understand the important part music contributes to our own cultures.

Author : Sean Morey Smith
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176729
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery written by Sean Morey Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble “Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby “Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby “Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry “Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia, 1793–1843,” Mary E. Hicks “Examining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies,” Deirdre Cooper Owens “Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade,” Elise A. Mitchell “Medicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,” Brandi M. Waters “A Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital,” Rana A. Hogarth “From Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever,” Timothy James Lockley “Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation,” Leslie A. Schwalm “Epilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake,” Sharla M. Fett

Author : Linda L. Barnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019517643X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Religion and Healing written by Linda L. Barnes and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description