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Edited by James Kirkland, Holly F. Mathews, C.W. Sullivan III, and Karen Baldwin. 240 pp. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1992. $45 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8223-1217-4.

"Indigenous medical systems," writes coeditor Holly Mathews, "are known by a confusing plethora of terms including alternative, unorthodox, vernacular, fringe, nontraditional, unofficial, and ethnomedicine." In this book 10 authors from various disciplines comment on the "indigenous," "naturopathic," and "magicoreligious" medicine practiced in North Carolina and Virginia. Their stated purpose is "to describe and explain the logic of traditional medical systems to health planners and practitioners in order to suggest how they can be integrated more effectively with biomedicine."

This book is a welcome addition to an area of scholarship that remains understudied. Reliable reference materials concerning the history, theory, practice, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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