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Book SynopsisPresents a cross-cultural perspective on manual medicine studies. This volume describes how manual medicine is one of the primary providers of traditional medicine. It is useful for manual practitioners of western medicine, including massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths, as well as those with traditional training.
Trade ReviewThis unique book succeeds in providing a diverse account of manual medicine in a global perspecitve. It is a big step away from the normal manual medicine texts discussing rationale, techniques, and outcomes that one might read. . . . The essays in this book are all well written, and the book provides a good and informative read for the manual medicine clinician interested in the history, diversity, and societal role of manual medicine in different parts of the world. * The Journal Of Manual and Manipulative Therapy *
Make no bones about it, Healing by Hand is a fine collection of scholarly essays on history, practice, and cultural manifestations of manual medicine. Healing by hand is an ancient practice that has evolved into a wide variety of clinical techniques, all of which are based on mobilizing the body's own recuperative powers. In this volume Oths and Hinojosa have collected 13 'deep probes' into many different traditions of manual medicine, ranging from Balinese and Mayan bonesetting to contemporary chiropractic and bodywork. Given the enormous growth of interest in manual healing in recent decades, this is precisely the right time for scholarly investigation of manual therapy, culture, and healing. Healing by Hand will be an excellent resource in the fields of medical anthropology, cultural studies in health care, and international health. Likewise, the book will open fascinating new perspectives to clinical practitioners of healing by hand. -- Jack Coulehan, MD MPH, Preventive Medicine Director, Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society Stony Brook University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. Indigenous Bonesetters in Contemporary Denmark Part 4 Part I: Past Meets Present in Manual Medicine Practice Chapter 5 3. Competing Views of Chiropractic: Health Services Research Versus Ethnographic Observation Chapter 5 2. When the Body Leads the Mind: Perspectives on Massage Therapy in the United States Chapter 6 4. Divergences in the Evolution of Osteopathy in Four Anglophone Countries: The United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia Chapter 7 5. Achy-Breaky Art: The Historical Development and Contemporary Practice of Tuina Chapter 10 6. The Hands, the Sacred, and the Context of Change in Maya Bonesetting Part 10 Part II: Experience and Embodiment in Practitioner-Patient Encounters Chapter 11 7. Body as Teacher: The Roles of Clinical Model and Morphology in Skill Acquisition Chapter 13 8. Two Ethnographers and One Bonesetter in Bali Chapter 14 9. "Getting Rolfed": Structural Bodywork, Disciplined Deportment, and Embodiment Part 15 Part III: A Wider Lens: The Bonesetterís Contribution to Community Health Chapter 15 11. Borana Bonesetters: Integrating Modernity and Tradition in a Northern Kenyan Pastoral Community Chapter 17 10. The Componedor's Place in the Pluralistic Andean Health Care System Chapter 18 12. A Man of His People: A Concise Ethnography of a Welsh Bonesetter Chapter 19 13. It Takes a Village: Reflections of a Modern Day Bonesetter Chapter 20 Index
