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Letter from the general editors of Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft

Dear Colleagues,

     As the new editors for Magic, Ritual, & Witchcraft, we are eager
to receive submissions for forthcoming issues of this journal. We hope
to continue the excellent work of previous editors and to build on the
reputation the journal has gained as an international forum for
scholarship on cultural history.( Read more... )

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Multiple Medical Realities: Patients And Healers In Biomedical, Alternative And Traditional Medicine (Easa)
By Helle Johannessen, Imre Lazar

Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality. Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is the observation that technologies of healing are founded on socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and self.( Read more... )