Walkin' Over Medicine by Loudell F. Snow PDF

By Loudell F. Snow

Representing greater than 20 years of anthropological examine, Walkin' over drugs, initially released by means of Westview Press in 1993, offers the result of Loudell F. Snow's community-based experiences in Arizona and Michigan, paintings in city prenatal clinics, conversations and correspondence with conventional healers, and adventure as a behavioral scientist in a pediatrics health facility. Snow additionally visited quite a few pharmacies, grocery shops, and uniqueness outlets in numerous significant towns, followed households to church providers, and attended weddings, baptisms, graduations, and funerals.

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She did not see the vitamins as better, just available. She was quite excited that a shop selling herbal teas had recently opened a few blocks away. " Anna was too shy to ask the proprietor as to their possible health-related uses, however; she still smarted from the time a local You'd Be Surprised What You Can Do 21 pharmacist had laughed when she asked for buzzard grease. But the couple's second son, Gabriel, had just returned from a tour of duty as a marine sergeant in Vietnam, bringing with him an illustrated encyclopedia as a gift for his parents.

But Tom and Anna did not exclude the use of other alternatives in their search for health and healing. Both of them at times requested prayer from the evangelist who lived next door; it was said that Sister Erma had been given "the gift" of healing in a vision. At other times each visited a physician; everybody, said Anna, ought to go to the doctor at least once a year. The couple were not, in fact, all that different from the other people in the neighborhood whom I had come to know during the year that I gathered data for my dissertation: It was obvious that there was decision-making about the proper treatment of health problems, including how and by whom.

This failure of the doctors to find a reason was particularly worrisome and she began to wonder if something else—something sinister—might be involved. In any case she could no longer work and when her unemployment benefits ran out she was unable to keep up her mortgage payments. The beloved house was gone. Soon her marriage was placed under a severe strain as well; her husband had been married before but had been separated from his first wife for a number of years. He simply assumed that she had gotten a divorce; she had not On hearing of his remarriage, in fact, she sent word that not only was he a bigamist but that it was about time he began paying some child support!

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