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This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woman from the Yoruba ethnic group. The results of the volume support the premise that culture plays a significant role in the kind of healing methods and counseling techniques used by professionals and traditional healers, as well as in the type of prof

Yoruba (African people) --- Healers --- Counseling --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Healing --- Mental healing --- Spiritual healing --- Counselling --- Helping behavior --- Psychology, Applied --- Clinical sociology --- Interviewing --- Personal coaching --- Social case work --- Medicine.

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Sociology of health --- Criminology. Victimology --- Développement économique --- Economic development --- Economic growth --- Economische ontwikkeling --- Healers --- Spiritual healing --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Healing --- Miracles --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Mental healing --- Religious aspects --- Developing countries --- Economic policy

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Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era to westernized biomedicine. These sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing practices have attracted attention from researchers and the public alike, as interest in alternative medicine and holistic healing continues to grow. Responding to this interest, the essays in this book offer a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of Mesoamerican healers and medical practices in Mexico and Guatemala. The first two essays describe the work of prehispanic and colonial healers and show how their roles changed over time. The remaining essays look at contemporary healers, including bonesetters, curers, midwives, nurses, physicians, social workers, and spiritualists. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, the authors examine such topics as the intersection of gender and curing, the recruitment of healers and their training, healers' compensation and workload, types of illnesses treated and recommended treatments, conceptual models used in diagnosis and treatment, and the relationships among healers and between indigenous healers and medical and political authorities.

Indians of Mexico --- Indians of Central America --- Shamans --- Healers --- Midwives --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Medicine. --- Medicine --- Birth attendants --- Nurse midwives --- Traditional birth attendants --- Medical personnel --- Midwifery --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Healing --- Mental healing --- Spiritual healing --- Medicine-man --- Medicine men --- Shaman --- Mediums --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology

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This volume exposes one of the world's oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as asûs, a diverse group of "healers", Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that from the Middle Babylonian period onwards, the goddess Gula was employed as a divine legitimization model for scholarly, professional asûs. With this work, Sibbing-Plantholt provides a unique insight in processes of medical competition and legitimization in ancient Mesopotamia, which speak to similar processes in other societies.

Assyro-Babylonian cults --- Goddesses in literature --- Goddesses, Assyro-Babylonian --- Healers in literature --- Healers --- Healing gods --- Healing in literature --- Healing --- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian --- History --- Gula --- Cult. --- Assyro-Babylonian medicine --- Medicine, Ancient --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Gods, Healing --- Gods --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric --- Mental healing --- Mythology --- Spiritual healing --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Assyro-Babylonian goddesses --- Cults --- Religious aspects --- Gula/Ninkarrak --- Ninkarrak --- Ninisinna

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Antinuclear movement --- Political activists --- Religious leaders --- Healers --- Shoshoni Indians --- Anti-nuclear movement --- Antinuclear protest movement --- Nuclear freeze movement --- Protest movement, Antinuclear --- Social movements --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear power plants --- Spiritual leaders --- Persons --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Healing --- Mental healing --- Spiritual healing --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- History --- Civil rights --- Religion. --- Social life and customs. --- Harney, Corbin, --- Nevada Test Site (Nev.) --- AEC Nevada Test Site (Nev.) --- Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range (Nev.) --- Nevada Atomic Test Site (Nev.) --- Nevada Nuclear Test Site (Nev.) --- Nevada Proving Grounds (Nev.)