Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective

Anthropologists have routinely overlooked the practice of body therapists, one of the primary providers of "traditional" medicine. Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural primer on manual medicine studies. As a particular modality of healing, manual medicine has reached a high level of popularity and importance as its practitioners investigate the body's important capacities for self-healing. The authors describe how manual medicine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759103933
• ISBN13: 9780759103931
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"