Author: Adler, Leonore Loeb ; & Mukherji, B. Runi, editors:
Title: Spirit versus Scalpel : Traditional Healing & Modern Psychotherapy
Description: Westport / London, Bergin & Garvey, (1995). orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xxv,219 pp. Textual tables. Minor binding rubbing & soil, VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: J. Beatty "Cultural Perceptions of Life & Death"; E.H. Bendix "Unspoken Assumptions in Communicating about Inner States: Chinese External versus Internal"; D.A.Louw & E. Pretorius "The Traditional Healer in a Multicultural Society: The South African Experience"; E. Golomb "Oracles in Ladakh: A Personal Experience"; N.R. Mrinal, et al: "Traditional Healing in India"; S.S. de Silva & W.J.Epps "A Study of Curative Options Available in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka";A. Jorge "'Mesa blanca': A Puerto Rican Healing Tradition"; R. Spires- Robin & P. McGarrahan "The Healing Practices of Mexican Spiritualism"; M. Fischer "Shamanism in Alaska"; M.W. Robin & R. DiGiuseppe "Endorsing Irrational Beliefs Cross-Culturally: Clinical Implications", etc.

Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Cross-Cultural, Psychology, Ethnomedicine, Traditional Healing, Medicine Systems, Folk Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Comparative