Although most “alternative” medical practices have existed far longer than conventional healthcare, modern allopathic continues to be the dominant system of medicine used in the United States. Herbal medicine is one of the oldest healing practices known to humankind and continues to be practiced today despite the numerous challenges modern society poses. As Julie Stone and Joan Mathews illuminate in Complimentary Medicine and the Law, “Plant-based remedies have been the principal source of medicines in healing traditions around the world and, as the World health Organization is at pains to remind us, 80 percent of the world’s population still depends primarily on plant medicine." Another statistic cited by Larry Dossey in Reinventing Medicine illustrates, “…researchers have found that adverse reactions to drugs kill over 100,000 people a year in US hospitals. That is the equivalent of a passenger jet crashing everyday. If this level of death were seen in any other field, it would probably be considered a national scandal." These facts reveal that American citizens have come to believe in a form of healthcare that is not widely accepted by the rest of the world, and that has some surprisingly dangerous characteristics hidden within. The question thus arises as to why biomedicine continues to be the standard form of healthcare in the US, and why alternative forms of medicine are devalued and failed to be justifiably recognized and incorporated into treatment strategies.

Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-22T13:45:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Rafael Rosa da Rocha.pdf: 1226993 bytes, checksum: d53c8668f0e8044d7c944ce1febc9b67 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2016-03-28T19:06:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Rafael Rosa da Rocha.pdf: 1226993 bytes, checksum: d53c8668f0e8044d7c944ce1febc9b67 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-28T19:06:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Rafael Rosa da Rocha.pdf: 1226993 bytes, checksum: d53c8668f0e8044d7c944ce1febc9b67 (MD5) / CAPES / Esta dissertação discute a passagem de Faustino Ribeiro Junior pela Bahia – um “curandeiro” branco, letrado e de família tradicional – colocando em perspectiva a repercussão que ele causou na sociedade da época. Quando passou pelo Estado, nos idos de 1903, no contexto das reformas urbanas e sanitárias, as elites da sociedade baiana viviam numa constante busca pelo que se queria “civilizado”, “progressista” “moderno” em consonância com o discurso da recém-inaugurada República. Nesse cenário, a presença de Faustino fez com que, de maneiras bastante diferentes, periódicos locais que tinha por marca vinculação a grupos políticos utilizassem de sua imagem para tentar se projetarem no jogo político. O curador foi visto pela Inspeção de Higiene como elemento que representava atraso para a sociedade baiana, perseguindo-o e mobilizando os artifícios disponíveis na época para coagir o “curandeiro”. Tem por objetivo apresentar e analisar, no cenário hostil às práticas de cura não oficiais, como as questões de saúde, jurídicas, políticas e sociais permeavam a atuação de Faustino. Buscamos problematizar tais questões para compreender a relação entre a Inspeção de Higiene, “o governo” e a Justiça. Palavras-chave: Faustino Ribeiro; práticas de cura; saúde; justiça.This thesis discusses the presence of Faustino Ribeiro Junior in Bahia - a white 'healer', educated and member of a traditional family - intending to show the impact that he caused on the society of the time. When he was in the State of Bahia in 1903, in the context of urban and health reforms, the elites of Bahian society lived in a constant search for what was understood as "civilized", "progressive", "modern" according to the ideology of the recent Republic. In this scenario, the presence of Faustino has made the local newspapers linked to political groups use their image to try to project themselves in the political game. The curator was seen by the Hygiene Inspection as an element what represented delay for the local society, chasing him and mobilizing the devices available at the time to coerce the "healer". This text aims to present and analyze, in the hostile scenario to healing practices, how health, legal, political and social issues have permeated Faustino's action. We seek to discuss such questions in order to understand the relationship between the Hygiene Inspection, the government and Justice.

A tese tem como objetivo correlacionar à escravidão a problemática da saúde na Ilha de Santa Catarina entre os anos de 1850 e 1888. Visa-se demonstrar a representatividade das populações de origem africana e seus descendentes nas condições de escravos, livres e libertos, em relação ao cômputo geral da população. Descortinam-se as modalidades de trabalho por eles exercidas, bem como as estratégias de sobrevivência criadas num contexto assinalado pela exploração da mão de obra escrava concomitantemente ao crescente movimento em favor da emancipação e da abolição. Sob a perspectiva da saúde, intenta-se mostrar como médicos, cirurgiões e farmacêuticos, saídos das instituições de ensino superior criadas após a Independência, se posicionaram contra as práticas populares de cura desempenhadas por africanos e afrodescendentes. Além disso, aponta-se para a frequência com que esses mesmos profissionais recorriam aos saberes e fazeres de curadores negros, ao lado de uma sociedade que igualmente acolhia tais formas de enfrentamento para as doenças, isto é, as formas gestadas no universo da cultura popular. A problematização dos discursos elaborados acerca da saúde e da escravidão no Brasil e na Ilha de Santa Catarina explicita as contradições neles presentes a partir do posicionamento dos intelectuais e da imprensa da época. Considerando as precárias condições de vida das populações levadas ao cativeiro, bem como aquelas observadas em relação aos africanos e afrodescendentes livres e libertos, submetidos à constante violência, indaga-se sobre o nível de interação da medicina social com a escravidão. Nesse sentido, reflete-se sobre como a problemática da saúde e da doença foi pensada para as pessoas acima mencionadas e, por sua vez, em que nível elas acolhiam essa medicina. / The aim of this thesis is to correlate slavery and health in the Ilha de Santa Catarina, between 1850 and 1888. The intent is to demonstrate the significant presence of Africans and their descendants as slaves, freed or free people of color amongst the whole population of this geographic locality. This research uncovers the modalities of their work, as well as their strategies to survive in a context of exploration of slave labor and increasing movements for emancipation and abolition. From the perspective of health, it intends to show how doctors, surgeons and pharmacists, who graduated in universities created after Brazilian independence, stood against the popular healing practices of Africans and their descendants. Moreover, it points to the frequency wherewith health professionals resorted to the knowledge and practices of black healers, within a society that likewise accepted those kinds of popular health treatments. To debate the discourses about health and slavery in Brazil and in the Ilha de Santa Catarina elucidates the contradictions that mark the discourses of both the intellectuality and the press in the nineteenth century. Considering the precarious living conditions of enslaved people besides the free and emancipated Africans and their descendants, also submitted to frequent violence this research questions the level of interaction between social medicine and slavery. In this sense, this thesis considers how health and disease issues were thought in relation to them, and to which level they embraced the official medicine of the period.

A tese tem como objetivo correlacionar à escravidão a problemática da saúde na Ilha de Santa Catarina entre os anos de 1850 e 1888. Visa-se demonstrar a representatividade das populações de origem africana e seus descendentes nas condições de escravos, livres e libertos, em relação ao cômputo geral da população. Descortinam-se as modalidades de trabalho por eles exercidas, bem como as estratégias de sobrevivência criadas num contexto assinalado pela exploração da mão de obra escrava concomitantemente ao crescente movimento em favor da emancipação e da abolição. Sob a perspectiva da saúde, intenta-se mostrar como médicos, cirurgiões e farmacêuticos, saídos das instituições de ensino superior criadas após a Independência, se posicionaram contra as práticas populares de cura desempenhadas por africanos e afrodescendentes. Além disso, aponta-se para a frequência com que esses mesmos profissionais recorriam aos saberes e fazeres de curadores negros, ao lado de uma sociedade que igualmente acolhia tais formas de enfrentamento para as doenças, isto é, as formas gestadas no universo da cultura popular. A problematização dos discursos elaborados acerca da saúde e da escravidão no Brasil e na Ilha de Santa Catarina explicita as contradições neles presentes a partir do posicionamento dos intelectuais e da imprensa da época. Considerando as precárias condições de vida das populações levadas ao cativeiro, bem como aquelas observadas em relação aos africanos e afrodescendentes livres e libertos, submetidos à constante violência, indaga-se sobre o nível de interação da medicina social com a escravidão. Nesse sentido, reflete-se sobre como a problemática da saúde e da doença foi pensada para as pessoas acima mencionadas e, por sua vez, em que nível elas acolhiam essa medicina. / The aim of this thesis is to correlate slavery and health in the Ilha de Santa Catarina, between 1850 and 1888. The intent is to demonstrate the significant presence of Africans and their descendants as slaves, freed or free people of color amongst the whole population of this geographic locality. This research uncovers the modalities of their work, as well as their strategies to survive in a context of exploration of slave labor and increasing movements for emancipation and abolition. From the perspective of health, it intends to show how doctors, surgeons and pharmacists, who graduated in universities created after Brazilian independence, stood against the popular healing practices of Africans and their descendants. Moreover, it points to the frequency wherewith health professionals resorted to the knowledge and practices of black healers, within a society that likewise accepted those kinds of popular health treatments. To debate the discourses about health and slavery in Brazil and in the Ilha de Santa Catarina elucidates the contradictions that mark the discourses of both the intellectuality and the press in the nineteenth century. Considering the precarious living conditions of enslaved people besides the free and emancipated Africans and their descendants, also submitted to frequent violence this research questions the level of interaction between social medicine and slavery. In this sense, this thesis considers how health and disease issues were thought in relation to them, and to which level they embraced the official medicine of the period.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:59:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelo.pdf: 7100657 bytes, checksum: de232ac0cbf8cb7047019c59662955c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The goal of this work is to map religious healing and myth-magic practices, pointing them at the present time on Ilha de Santa Catarina. The text runs around the hypothesis that they reveal world views which, like in the second half of 20th century, remains in the memories of many inhabitants of the Island in 19th century. The evaluated corpus is constituted, basically, of written texts and ads featured in local newspapers, such as in almanacs, pamphlets, and printed and handwritten prayers, photographs, pictures from the period corresponding to the second half of 20th century and to the beginning years of 19th century. The argument presented in this essay tries showing that, in that period s Ilha de Santa Catarina , there is an written texts production which is intended to be read from and to a specific amount of the population as an attempt to civilize the body-healing practices through reading / O objetivo deste trabalho é mapear práticas de curas religiosas e mito-mágicas, localizando-as no tempo presente na Ilha de Santa Catarina. Trabalha-se com a hipótese de que elas revelam visões de mundo que, assim como na segunda metade do século XX, continuam a existir e residir na memória de muitos moradores da Ilha no século XXI. O corpus em apreço se constitui, principalmente, de textos e anúncios escritos veiculados em jornais locais, além de almanaques, panfletos, orações manuscritas ou impressas, fotografias, imagens, do período correspondente à segunda metade do século XX e aos primeiros anos do século XXI. A discussão apresentada nesta dissertação busca mostrar que, na Ilha de Santa Catarina nesse período, há uma produção de textos escritos que é dada a ler por e para uma determinada parcela da população como uma tentativa de civilizar as práticas de cura do corpo via leitura

The present study has as starting point the arrest of the Spanish occult Jose Maria Dominguez y Dominguez, accused of practicing illegal medical practice. From the narration of this event we seek to understand who this person was and what were the practices of healing and representation used during the period in which the process was open between 1923 and 1928 for him. Decreasing the scale of observation, attribute of micro -history, helped us to see the sociocultural universe that individual. In times when the sources cannot give us the answers sought, we make use of the concept of |likelihood| of Natalie Davis, looking historically determined the possibilities for the study period. The concepts of representation and appropriation practices were used according to the definition made by Roger Chartier. Dominguez had a practice of healing hybrid, formed by traditional medicine, modern medicine and magical practices of the occult, who became a mediator between different cultural forms. The notion of |mediator| was used by Peter Burke to understand the role of subjects alternate between |literacy| and |traditional oral culture|, in which case we studied is the healing practices used by academic and medical practices popular cure. The |civilizing| project of the Brazilian government sought the end of some of these practices. The actions that sought to modernize Aracaju agreed with this project. At a time of transformation, Dominguez, fighting for the survival of their practices, finding footholds in social and cultural settings that participated. / O presente estudo tem como ponto de partida a prisão do ocultista espanhol José Maria Dominguez y Dominguez, acusado de praticar o exercício ilegal da medicina. A partir da narração desse acontecimento buscamos compreender quem era esse indivíduo e quais eram as práticas e representações da cura por ele utilizadas, durante o período em que seu processo esteve aberto, entre 1923 e 1928. A diminuição da escala de observação, atributo da micro-história, contribuiu para que enxergássemos o universo sociocultural desse indivíduo. Nos momentos em que as fontes não puderem nos dar as respostas procuradas, nos valemos da noção de verossimilhança de Natalie Davis, procurando as possibilidades historicamente determinadas para o período estudado. Foram utilizados os conceitos de representação, práticas e apropriação, conforme a definição feita por Roger Chartier. Dominguez possuía uma prática de cura híbrida, formada pela medicina tradicional, a medicina moderna e as práticas mágicas do ocultismo, que o tornava um mediador entre diferentes formas culturais. A noção de mediador foi utilizada por Peter Burke para entender o papel de sujeitos transitam entre a cultura letrada e a cultura oral tradicional , que no caso que estudamos são as práticas de cura utilizada pelos médicos acadêmicos e as práticas de cura populares. O projeto civilizador do governo brasileiro buscava o fim de algumas dessas práticas. As ações que buscavam modernizar Aracaju estavam de acordo com esse projeto. Numa época de transformações, Dominguez, lutava pela sobrevivência de suas práticas, encontrando pontos de apoio nas configurações sociais e culturais que participava.

No description available.

Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English)

Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English)

MAAS / Centre for African Studies / Healing practices and health related rituals play a vital role in most religious groups including African Traditional Religion, Christianity, Islamic and Hinduism. This phenomenon of healing has been a challenge to religious institutions as well as African based churches. This study examined and analysed the healing practices within mega-churches in relation to the health related aspects. It appears that healing practices performed in those churches make them popular and enhance their growth in membership numerically. The study focuses on the philosophy and theological understanding of both mega-churches and mainstream churches. It is ostensible that healing, as a phenomenon, cannot be separated from core African culture, values and practices. Current church healing practices seems to be a more practical and accessible alternative way to deal with sickness as medical facilities has become inexorably costly especially to poor community who have no access to efficient medical amenities. Underprivileged members of society are drawn to religious healing practices because healers such as prophets, pastors and apostles dangle the capacity to heal people from all kind of ailments. Poor communities become a target because they are victims of government and the department of health malfunctions which are depicted by the poor and below standard medical services in those underprivileged communities. Most people in those communities believe that the above-mentioned emerging prophets and apostles from mega-churches are anointed and possess special power to heal them as well as to redeem them from life’s harsh realities. In the context of current healing practices, the researcher discovered that there is a need to probe and analyse the aforesaid practices particularly whereby healing seekers seems to have not receive what they anticipated from those mega-churches. The study exposes inappropriate healing dynamics conceived in the selected mega-churches within African tradition context. This study followed a qualitative approach, in which participants from both mega-churches and mainline churches were interviewed. The study further points out some perceived challenges affecting current healing practices in the selected mega-churches of Vhembe district of Limpopo Province. The study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis strategy to analyse the data for the study. / NRF