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Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural perspective on manual medicine studies--the practice of body therapists that is routinely overlooked by medical practitioners and social scientists. The authors describe how manual medicine is one of the primary providers of "traditional" medicine. It takes numerous forms across the world's communities, and represents beliefs and practices about healing, physical and psychological states, and the relation between culture and health. This volume is a valuable resource for manual practitioners of western medicine, including massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths, as well as those with traditional training. It is especially recommended for courses such as medical anthropology, health and human culture, technology and the developing world, sociology of health, international health, and health care systems.

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Excerpt from On Bone-Setting (So Called), And Its Relation to the Treatment of Joints Crippled by Injury, Rheumatism, Inflammation, &C. &C During a second illness from which Mr. Hutton suffered, I took absolute charge of the poorer class of patients whom he was accustomed to attend gratuitously, and found that I could easily aecom plish all that I had seen him do. I declined, how ever, to undertake the remunerative portion of his practice, and from this and other reasons my inter course with him had wholly ceased for about two years prior to his death. I found, however, that it had lasted long enough to give me knowledge of a kind that is not conveyed in ordinary surgical teaching, and that, when guided by anatomy, is of the highest practical value, as well in preventive as in curative treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.