The region of Southern Appalachia, long known for its colorful storytellers, is also rich in folk medical lore and practice. In their Appalachian novels, Lucy Furman, Emma Bell Miles, Mildred Haun, Catherine Marshall, Harriette Arnow, Lee Smith, and Charles Frazier, feature folk medicine prominently in their narratives. The novels studied, set against the backdrop of the rise of official medicine, are divided into three major time periods that correspond to important chapters in the history of American medicine: the 1890s through the 1930s; the 1940s through the 1960s; and the 1970s through the present. The study of folk medicine, a sub-specialty of the academic discipline of folklore, gains significance with the current rise in distrust of official medicine and a return to medical folkways of our past. The authors studied here have performed an ethnological role in collecting and preserving with great care and authenticity many of the Appalachian regionÆs folk medical beliefs and practices.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-11-22T13:00:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Costa Lima-Thomaz.pdf: 8687977 bytes, checksum: 54cb7b48c29fd380301c6acd9e33e539 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-22T13:00:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Costa Lima-Thomaz.pdf: 8687977 bytes, checksum: 54cb7b48c29fd380301c6acd9e33e539 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Along the first decades of the twentieth century European and North American doctors became increasingly interested in medical practices rated heterodox and that overall sought to develop a more humane approach to medicine. Later on such practices became known as holistic, for their attempt to take all aspects of human beings into consideration. In France, that movement gained particular momentum in the interwar period and acquired peculiar features that distinguished it from the rest of Europe, Germany in particular, where medical holism was firmly consolidated by that time. Several of the most outstanding French holistic doctors coauthored a book entitled Médecine officielle et médecines hérétiques, published in 1945. This book can be seen as a manifesto against the contemporary official medicine, which according to the authors had surrendered to the evils of the modern civilization. Taking that book as point of departure, our analysis sought to understand the epistemological dialogue established between the holistic and the official medicines within the context circumscribed by the main lines of thought in the beginning of the twentieth century / Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, desenvolveu-se no cenário médico europeu e norte-americano um maior interesse por práticas médicas consideradas heterodoxas, que visavam, acima de tudo, uma medicina mais humanista. Posteriormente foram qualificadas como abordagens holísticas, por terem uma visão integradora dos diversos aspectos do ser humano. Na França, esse movimento apresentou um impulso maior no período entreguerras, com características próprias que o diferenciaram do restante da Europa, especialmente da Alemanha, onde o holismo médico encontrava-se bem consolidado no mesmo período. Em 1945 foi publicada a obra Médecine officielle et médecines hérétiques, reunindo personalidades importantes do holismo médico francês. A obra constituiu um manifesto frente à medicina da época, que, segundo os autores, necessitava de humanização, pois estava rendida aos males da modernidade. Nossa análise, apoiada nessa mesma obra, visa compreender o diálogo epistemológico entre a medicina holística e a hegemônica naquele período, dentro do contexto traçado pelas principais linhas de pensamento do início do século XX