edited by Kathryn S. Oths and Servando Z. Hinojosa
Table of Contents Page
Introduction … 1
1. Indigenous Bonesetters in Contemporary Denmark, Robert Anderson … 18
2. The Historical and Cultural Importance of Tuina as a Primary Component
of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jennifer Minor, Miranda Warburton and
H. Vincent Black … 42
3. Divergences in the Evolution of Osteopathy in Four Anglophile Countries:
The United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia, Hans Baer … 74
4. When the Body Leads the Mind: Perspectives on Massage Therapy in the
United States, Susan Walkley … 99
5. It Takes a Village: Reflections of a Modern Day Bonesetter, Marc Weill … 128
6. The Hands, the Sacred, and the Context of Change in Maya Bonesetting,
Servando Z. Hinojosa … 144
7. The Body as Teacher: The Roles of Clinical Model and Morphology in Skill
Acquisition, John O’Malley … 175
8. Two Ethnographers and One Bonesetter in Bali, Robert Anderson and
Norman Klein … 212
9. “Getting Rolfed”: Disciplined Deportment, Biomechanical Excellence, and
the Embodied Self, Eric Jacobson … 228
Section III: A Wider Lens: Manual Medicine’s Contribution to Population Health
10. The Componedor’s Place in the Pluralistic Andean Health Care System,
Kathryn S. Oths … 273
11. Borana Bonesetters: Integrating Modernity and Tradition in a Northern
Kenya Pastoral Community, Isaac K. Nyamongo … 301
12. Competing Views of Chiropractic: Health Services Research Versus
Ethnographic Observation, Ian Coulter … 323
13. A Man of His People: A Concise Ethnography of a Welsh Bonesetter,
Simon Leyson … 351