African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
240 p, Contents: 1. The dialectics of healing power -- 2. Metropolitan medicine and strategies of rule -- 3. Biomedicine in Jeanty -- 4. Medicalization and illness experience: two case-studies -- 5. The Catholic practice of healing -- 6. Houngan and the limits of Catholic morality -- 7. Religious healing and the fragmentation of rural life -- 8. Conclusion