Medicine Women Curanderas and Women Doctors

<p>Winner of the Zia Award New Mexico Press Women</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>