Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention?
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean

Chapter 2. Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean

Chapter 3. The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Catherine Cox

Chapter 4. Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring
Susan Philpin

Chapter 5. A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland
Ronnie Moore

Chapter 6. Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain
Ayo Wahlberg

Chapter 7. Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine
Stuart McClean

Chapter 8. Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines
Anne Macfarlane and Tomas deBrun

Chapter 9. Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace
Geraldine Lee-Treweek

Chapter 10. Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix
Julie Stone

Chapter 11. Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries
Stuart McClean and Ronnie Moore

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Ronnie Moore currently Lectures in Medical Anthropology and Sociology in the Departments of Sociology and Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at University College Dublin. Ronnie’s research interests include health disparities; health, conflict and ethnic identity; and conflict theory.

Reviews

“…in this volume, the editors emphasise the interactional and interdependent nature of folk, biomedicine and other alternative and complementary treatments (CAM). Hence, the book will be of value not only to readers who are interested in folk, alternative and complementary medicine but also to those interested in biomedicine. I would recommend the book to many students, teachers, researchers and lay readers.”  ·  Sociology of Health & Illness