Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Download or read book Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors written by Bobette Perrone and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.