Magic or medicine? : an investigation of healing & healers /

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Author / Creator:Buckman, Rob.
Imprint:Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 1995.
Description:x, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2417955
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Other authors / contributors:Sabbagh, Karl.
ISBN:0879759488 : $25.95
Notes:Originally published: Toronto, Ont. : Key Porter Books, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Healing and Healers
  • 2. The Origins of Healing
  • 3. Encounters of a Healing Kind
  • 4. A Taxonomy of Healing
  • 5. Philosophical Attractions
  • 6. Practical Plusses and Minuses
  • 7. Alternative Explanations of the Inexplicable
  • 8. Getting Better or Feeling Better
  • 9. Synthesis: Magic and Medicine.