Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Posted on 09 August 2018 by Bobette Perrone

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. Read Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors by Bobette Perrone – kino-fada.fr Perrone, Stockel, and Krueger spoke with 9 women of three different healing traditions For the most part, their interviews, some of which spanned years condensed and edited down to 5 to 20 pages each, provide an introduction to a European schooled audience about the perspectives of American Indian women healers, New Mexican Latina healers, and several Euro American women doctors trained in the United States at recognized colleges and institutions I liked this book for its attempt to span the Perrone, Stockel, and Krueger spoke with 9 women of three different healing traditions For the most part, their interviews, some of which spanned years condensed and edited down to 5 to 20 pages each, provide an introduction to a European schooled audience about the perspectives of American Indian women healers, New Mexican Latina healers, and several Euro American women doctors trained in the United States at recognized colleges and i...Good book My favorite was the beginning I mean it is good for the work the authors did It seemed they had began with Native healers and see the work put into writing about them I was not a fan of the women doctors section And the curanderas was ok I like...This book took me way too long to finish It is written by multiple authors, so parts of it were very interesting and hard to put down, while other parts were very dry and hard to get through The whole book was very informative and enlightening though.Almost done with this It s incredibly thorough, authentic to each practioner s views, and feels very much like personal training Found it in a thrift store for.25 Love it, and wondering why these issues women in medicine healing arts cultural perspectives , aren t looked at This book is so cool It gives you a neat idea of other healing traditions outside of traditional western medicine and also about women s role as healers and how women kind of play a unique role even if you are a traditional western MD you still can be a healerI loved reading the personal stories I liked all the accounts in this book.About alternative models of healing and women who choose their own path.

Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

English
09 August 2018

Bobette Perrone