New Publication by Ronnie Moore: Folk Healing and Health Care Practices of Britain and Ireland
Publication Date: August 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-672-6
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Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical moment. At the same time biomedicine is under scrutiny, experiencing a number of distinct and multifaceted crises. In this volume the authors draw together cutting edge cross-cultural, interdisciplinary research in Britain and Ireland, focusing on exploring the role and significance of healing practices in diverse local contexts, such as the use of crystals, herbs, cures and charms, potions and lotions.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention? - Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Chapter 2 Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World - Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Chapter 3 The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland - Catherine Cox
Chapter 4 ‘The Social Bonds of Cooking’: Gastronomic`Societies and Moral Economy - Susan Philpin
Chapter 5 A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland - Ronnie Moore
Chapter 6 Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain - Ayo Wahlberg
Chapter 7 Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine - Stuart McClean
Chapter 8 Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines - Anne Macfarlane and Tomas deBrun
Chapter 9 Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace - Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Chapter 10 Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix - Julie Stone
Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries - Sturart McClean and Ronnie Moore
The Editors
Ronnie Moore currently Lectures in Medical Anthropology and Sociology in the Departments of Sociology and Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at University College Dublin. Ronnie’s research interests include health disparities; health, conflict and ethnic identity; and conflict theory.
Stuart McClean is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Stuart’s research interests include the resurgence of alternative medicine and healing practices in Western societies, the role of creative arts in health, and the global dimensions surrounding health.