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Curandero-a Physician's Life Journey

Author : Don Blossom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450270724
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Curandero-a Physician's Life Journey written by Don Blossom and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Blossom, a certified pediatrician for more than four decades, relives a personal journey from childhood through a long career in medicine. Occasionally, over the course of his career, he came to think of himself as a curandero, a folk healer who serves Native Americans and Hispanic America. Before he found his calling, however, Blossom had to survive his youthful exuberance including a tour overseas as a US Army Special Forces paratrooper. After several months, he yearned to catch a glimpse of an American girl. He got his chance when he was honorably discharged and met Ellie, a beguiling lass from New Orleans. In love, he faced a future in medical school and other obstacles before realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. Blossom succeeded, becoming a doctor in private practice in a small New Mexico community, just as the field of medicine experienced some serious changes. He recalls his many adventures in medical diagnosis, the demands of a professional career in pediatrics, and the evolution of his private and family life. In his manuscript Blossom targets physicians & nurses, healthcare administrators & medical educators, parents & teachers, as well as the evolution of healthcare in America. Explore the daily life and responsibilities of a pediatrician working in a small town and join Blossom as he reminisces about his experiences in Alaska, Russia, New Zealand and beyond in "Curandero: A Physician's Life Journey."

Curandero: a Physician’S Life Journey

Author : Don Blossom MD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450270735
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Curandero: a Physician’S Life Journey written by Don Blossom MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Blossom, a certified pediatrician for more than four decades, relives a personal journey from childhood through a long career in medicine. Occasionally, over the course of his career, he came to think of himself as a curandero, a folk healer who serves Native Americans and Hispanic America. Before he found his calling, however, Blossom had to survive his youthful exuberance including a tour overseas as a US Army Special Forces paratrooper. After several months, he yearned to catch a glimpse of an American girl. He got his chance when he was honorably discharged and met Ellie, a beguiling lass from New Orleans. In love, he faced a future in medical school and other obstacles before realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. Blossom succeeded, becoming a doctor in private practice in a small New Mexico community, just as the field of medicine experienced some serious changes. He recalls his many adventures in medical diagnosis, the demands of a professional career in pediatrics, and the evolution of his private and family life. In his manuscript Blossom targets physicians & nurses, healthcare administrators & medical educators, parents & teachers, as well as the evolution of healthcare in America. Explore the daily life and responsibilities of a pediatrician working in a small town and join Blossom as he reminisces about his experiences in Alaska, Russia, New Zealand and beyond in Curandero: A Physicians Life Journey.

The Border Healer

Author : Alberto Salinas, Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467060518
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Border Healer written by Alberto Salinas, Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Border Healer My Life as a Curandero is one of the most significant contributions of its kind. Alberto Salinas, Jr. a curandero tells his story in the native voice. He tells us about his life and how he became a healer. He explains the spiritual world of El Nino Fidencio, the spiritual realm in which he practices and he shares with us many of his experiences as a working exorcist. He recounts his life growing up as a migrant farm worker in south Texas, marrying, raising children and working as a deputy sheriff before he recognized his calling to spiritual service as a curandero.

Curandero

Author : Eliseo “Cheo” Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826336418
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Curandero written by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliseo Torres, known as "Cheo," grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more about the plants and rituals of curanderismo. Torres's story begins with his experiences in the Mexican town of Espinazo, the home of the great curandero El Niño Fidencio (1899-1939), where Torres underwent life-changing spiritual experiences. He introduces us to some of the major figures in the tradition, discusses some of the pitfalls of teaching curanderismo, and concludes with an account of a class he taught in which curanderos from Cuernavaca, Mexico, shared their knowledge with students. Part personal pilgrimage, part compendium of medical knowledge, this moving book reveals curanderismo as both a contemplative and a medical practice that can offer new approaches to ancient problems. From Curandero ". . . for centuries, rattlesnakes were eaten to prevent any number of conditions and illnesses, including arthritis and rheumatism. In Mexico and in other Latin American countries, rattlesnake meat is actually sold in capsule form to treat impotence and even to treat cancer. Rattlesnake meat is also dried and ground and sprinkled into open wounds and body sores to heal them, and a rattlesnake ointment is made that is applied to aches and pains as well."

Curandero Hispanic Ethno-Psychotherapy & Curanderismo

Author : Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665503033
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Curandero Hispanic Ethno-Psychotherapy & Curanderismo written by Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curandero: Ethno-Psychotherapy & Curanderismo Hispanic Mental Health in the 21st Century, is the product of more than 50 years of the study of curanderismo and Hispanic mental health. In this book, Dr. Zavaleta examines curanderismo and the folk beliefs carried by immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the United States, the Hispanic population is notoriously underserved in both physical and mental health care. In Curandero, Dr. Zavaleta reviews the history of curanderismo, beginning with pre-Columbian populations, and traces the development of curanderismo over the past 500 years. He also examines the history and practice of psychiatry and the emergence of ethno-psychotherapy as well as psychiatry’s historic failure to incorporate culture in the treatment of the mental health of Hispanic populations. Dr. Zavaleta seeks to introduce curanderismo to psychiatry with the intention of incorporating its important aspects in the treatment of Hispanic mental health.

Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Author : Bobette Perrone
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806175206
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors written by Bobette Perrone and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.

Open for Interpretation

Author : Alicia Blando
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647424712
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Open for Interpretation written by Alicia Blando and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young doctor working in the middle of the HIV epidemic in the early ’90s, Alicia Blando feels unsure of the effectiveness of the medical profession. To gain insight into her life’s path, she seeks advice in some unconventional places, and lands on astrology as her way forward. Astrology, based in astronomy, has specific rules; it can’t be easily manipulated. The scientist in her can’t help but respond to this idea. At a pivotal group demonstration, Alicia finds a mentor, Iris, who introduces her to the study of astrology. By learning to read the horoscope, Alicia gains insight into her potential and manifests her ambition to travel and explore healing techniques from indigenous cultures. Eventually, her search for new teachers and past knowledge takes her from Manhattan to the Peruvian Amazon, Belize, and Bolivia, where she discovers ancient ways of healing among people who consider the sky to be a continuation of nature on earth. She connects with the tenets of astrology as the language that describes man’s connection to the sky environment. The horoscopic map gives information that can assist in making better choices in life, Alicia learns; it has the potential to analyze a person’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and health concerns. Alicia’s journey off the beaten path ultimately leads her to true self-exploration and connection with the world around her, as well as a desire to share her knowledge. In Open for Interpretation, she shares her story of finally finding the map she’s been seeking—and explains how we can all use that map to access our true selves and untapped potential.

When Doctors Don't Listen

Author : Dr. Leana Wen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312594917
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book When Doctors Don't Listen written by Dr. Leana Wen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to avoid harmful medical mistakes, offering advice on such topics as working with a busy doctor, communicating the full story of an illness, evaluating test risks, and obtaining a working diagnosis.

Infusions of Healing

Author : Joie Davidow
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Infusions of Healing written by Joie Davidow and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1999-10-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasury of Mexican-American herbal medicine presents hundreds of safe, effective herbal treatments for everyday ailments--teas, liniments, compresses, salves, and soothing baths for headaches, colds, fevers, digestive problems, menstrual cramps, and aches and pains. In addition, more than 200 herbs are cataloged and cross-referenced. 10 line drawings.

Becoming Dr. Q

Author : Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949609
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Dr. Q written by Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story—from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School. Packed with adventure and adversity—including a few terrifying brushes with death—Becoming Dr. Q is a testament to persistence, hard work, the power of hope and imagination, and the pursuit of excellence. It’s also a story about the importance of family, of mentors, and of giving people a chance.

Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing

Author : Uwe P. Gielen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113561377X
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing written by Uwe P. Gielen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, as well as physical distress, is a heritage from our hominid ancestors; it has been experienced by every group of human beings since our emergence as a species. And every known culture has developed systems of conceptualization and intervention for addressing it. The editors have brought together leading psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and others to consider the interaction of psychosocial, biological, and cultural variables as they influence the assessment of health and illness and the course of therapy. The volume includes broadly conceived theoretical and survey chapters; detailed descriptions of specific healing traditions in Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Arab world. The Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing is a unique resource, containing information about Western therapies practiced in non-Western cultures, non-Western therapies practiced both in their own context and in the West.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76

Author : Katherine D. McCann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322795
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76 written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.

Psychedelic Justice

Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907791850
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Psychedelic Justice written by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CULTIVATING A PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE Radical, cultural transformation is the guiding force behind this socially visionary anthology. Its unifying value is social justice. It guides us in cultivating a psychedelic renaissance that represents everyone, honors voices that have been suppressed for too long, and envisions a more beautiful tomorrow through a psychedelic lens. Psychedelic culture is at an inflection point. Within the last decade, psychedelics have assimilated into the mainstream, even becoming a multimillion-dollar industry. As they integrate into the dominant culture, a lot of longtime participants in psychedelic communities are wondering: will psychedelics help us revolutionize society, or will they merely reinforce old narratives? As psychedelic medicine integrates into mainstream, capitalist culture, the question of what forces will gain control and shape the direction of the psychedelic renaissance is front and center. In this pivotal time, with so many new players emerging, those of us who believe that psychedelics can help us transform society are being challenged to define, and embody, the values that will shape this growing movement. To do this, we must first acknowledge the shadow side of the psychedelic movement and challenge its longstanding injustices. If the psychedelic renaissance is going to expand and revolutionize society, it must include and serve everybody. The anthology highlights Chacruna's ongoing work promoting diversity and inclusion by prominently featuring voices that have been long marginalized in Western psychedelic culture: women, queer people, people of color, and indigenous people. The essays examine both historical and current issues within psychedelics that many may not know about, and orient around policy, reciprocity, diversity and inclusion, sex and power, colonialism, and indigenous concerns.

The Fellowship of the River

Author : Joseph Tafur MD
Publisher : Joseph Tafur
ISBN 13 : 9780998609508
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Fellowship of the River written by Joseph Tafur MD and published by Joseph Tafur. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why. I have watched people spend years in frustration and thousands of dollars consulting an army of specialists, without getting real relief from their problem. Because these and others are diseases deeply connected with the state of our emotional bodies. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness. This is where traditional plant medicines, with their ability to alter consciousness and open channels of communication to our emotions, offer so much promise. The stories shared here demonstrate the astonishing-mystical, colorful, metaphysical-effects of ayahuasca and Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine. Follow Dr. Tafur through the Amazon jungle as he develops a breakthrough understanding of how psychoactive plants interact with the complex network that connects our minds and hearts to our physical anatomy. What Dr. Tafur presents here is nothing short of a paradigm shift for modern medicine, where sacred plants, used properly in ceremony, take their place as important tools in the doctor's medicine chest, offering the missing elements of emotional and spiritual healing that have eluded us for so long. For more information about The Fellowship of The River, please visit https: //drjoetafur.com/the-fellowship-of-the-river/

Hispanic Mental Health Research

Author : Frank Cota-Robles Newton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520041660
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Hispanic Mental Health Research written by Frank Cota-Robles Newton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontier Medicine

Author : David Dary
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307270319
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Frontier Medicine written by David Dary and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry. Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.

Psychedelic Outlaws

Author : Joanna Kempner
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306828960
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Psychedelic Outlaws written by Joanna Kempner and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning sociologist unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms—crafting near-clinical grade dosing protocols--and fought for recognition in a broken medical system. Cluster headache, a diagnosis sometimes referred to as a ‘suicide headache,’ is widely considered the most severe pain disorder that humans experience. There is no cure, and little funding available for research into developing treatments. When Joanna Kempner met Bob Wold in 2012, she was introduced to a world beyond most people's comprehension—a clandestine network determined to find relief using magic mushrooms. These ‘Clusterbusters,’ a group united only by the internet and a desire to survive, decided to do the research that medicine left unfinished. They produced their own psychedelic treatment protocols and managed to get academics at Harvard and Yale to test their results. Along the way, Kempner explores not only the fascinating history and exploding popularity of psychedelic science, but also a regulatory system so repressive that the sick are forced to find their own homegrown remedies, and corporate America and university professors stand to profit from their transgressions. From the windswept shores of the North Sea through the verdant jungle of Peruvian Amazon to a kitschy underground palace built in a missile silo in Kansas, Psychedelic Outlaws chronicles the rise of psychedelic medicine amid a healthcare system in turmoil. Kempner’s gripping tale of community and resilience brings readers on a eye-opening journey through the politics of pain, through the stories of people desperate enough to defy the law for a moment of relief.