Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
Anthony Cavender
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2014
Pages: 288
Subject: Health and Fitness, Social Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78081E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469617398
DESCRIPTION
Demonstrating the ongoing interplay between mainstream scientific medicine and folk medicine, Cavender challenges the conventional view of southern Appalachia as an exceptional region isolated from outside contact. His thorough and accessible study reveals how Appalachian folk medicine encompasses such diverse and important influences as European and Native American culture and America's changing medical and health-care environment. In doing so, he offers a compelling representation of the cultural history of the region as seen through its health practices.