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Physician, Heal Thyself |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Beryl Lieff Benderly |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,690 Words, 10,479 Characters |
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MEDICINE WOMEN, CURANDERAS, AND WOMEN DOCTORS
Bobette Perrone, Henrietta Stockel, and Victoria Krueger
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989
252 pp., $18.95
"Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth," the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno observed in 1585. Ever since, investigators have tried to discover exactly what it is that healers outside the scientific tradition actually do to achieve their mysterious but indisputable cures. Shamans, medicine people, and spiritual healers clearly marshal forces beyond the ken and interest of mainstream medicine.
This book's authors, all residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, share Bruno's fascination but reject his principal assumption. School-certified medicos do not monopolize "the truth," they insi...
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...men must take - and are taking - a far more prominent and honored role in healing in this country. And clearly, the practitioners of these unfortunately dying traditions have something important to teach our medical people, if only they would listen. As Tu Moonwalker says, "Half of medicine is psychic. You know immediately what's wrong with someone. They won't tell you. Their soul will."
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