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Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions

Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions. By Gabrielle Hatfield. Santa Barbara, Calif., Denver, Col. and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2004. 392 pp. Illus. 56.95 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-57607-874-4

This very readable book analyses the traditions of British and North American folk medicine, considering how folk remedies cut across a number of disciplines from botany and anthropology to religious studies and pharmaceutical science. As the author says in her Introduction, folk medicine "should be regarded as the origin of all types of medical practice. It predates any form of official medicine and includes self-treatment as well as treatment by community healers."(Continue Reading)

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