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In this comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the 19th to the 21st century.

Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia

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      Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
      Published 31 December 2003
      ISBN-13 9780807854938
      978-0807854938
      ISBN-10 080785493X
      Also in:
      Folklore studies / Study of myth Social and cultural anthropology

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      Book Synopsis
      In this comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the 19th to the 21st century.

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