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Bobette Perrone - Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

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The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural heaing 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, physchologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.

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title:Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors
author:Perrone, Bobette.; Stockel, H. Henrietta; Krueger, Victoria
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806125128
print isbn13:9780806125121
ebook isbn13:9780585145419
language:English
subjectWomen healers--Cross-cultural studies, Women physicians--Cross-cultural studies, Medical anthropology, Indians of North America--Medicine.
publication date:1989
lcc:R692.P47 1989eb
ddc:610/.82
subject:Women healers--Cross-cultural studies, Women physicians--Cross-cultural studies, Medical anthropology, Indians of North America--Medicine.
Page iii
Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors
By
Bobette Perrone
H. Henrietta Stockel
Victoria Krueger
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
Page iv
OTHER BOOKS BY H. HENRIETTA STOCKEL
Women of the Apache Nation: Voices of Truth (Reno, 1991)
Survival of the Spirit: The Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity (Reno, 1993)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perrone, Bobette, 1927
Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette
Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p. 239
Includes index. 1. Women healersCross-cultural studies. 2. Women physicians
Cross-cultural studies. 3. Medical anthropology. 4. Indians of
North AmericaMedicine. I. Stockel, H. Henrietta, 1938.
II. Krueger, Victoria, 1942 . III. Title.
R692-P47 1989 610'.82dc20Picture 2Picture 3Picture 489-4901
ISBN: 0-8061-2200-5 (cloth)
ISBN: 0-8061-2512-8 (paper)
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 5
Copyright 1989 by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, and Victoria Krueger. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved.
Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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To the Great Spiritin all its voices
Page vii
CONTENTS
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Chapter 1
Bridges: An Introduction
3
Part One: Medicine Women
Chapter 2
Introduction
21
Chapter 3
Annie Kahn: The Flower That Speaks in a Pollen Way
29
Chapter 4
Tu Moonwalker: Apache Weaver of Healing
47
Chapter 5
Dhyani Ywahoo: Priestcraft Holder of the Ani Gadoah Clan, Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation
57
Part Two: Las Curanderas
Chapter 6
Introduction
85
Chapter 7
Sabinita Herrera: Curandera y Yerbera
99
Chapter 8
Gregorita Rodriguez: Curandera y Sobardora
107
Chapter 9
Jesusita Aragon: Curandera y Partera
115
Part Three: Women Doctors
Chapter 10
Introduction
123
Chapter 11
Molly Radford Ward, M.D.
133
Chapter 12
Jane Patterson, M.D.
143
Chapter 13
Stirling Puck, M.D.
149
Chapter 14
Josette Mondanaro, M.D.
159
Part Four: The Dark Side of Healing
Chapter 15
Witchcraft in History
169

Page viii
Chapter 16
Inside the Darkness: Three Cultural Views of Witchcraft
177
Part Five: The Authors Speak
Chapter 17
Talking and Listening:
Bobette Perrone
199
Chapter 18
A Philosophy of Comprehensive Healing:
H. Henrietta Stockel
213
Chapter 19
Reflections:
Victoria Krueger
225
Notes
231
Bibliography
239
Index
245

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