Bonesetters:  A Cross-Cultural Survey of Manual Medicine

edited by Kathryn S. Oths and Servando Z. Hinojosa

 

 

Table of Contents                                                                                                      Page

 

Introduction                                                                                                                          …    1

 

Section I:  Past Meets Present in Manual Medicine Practice

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

 

Section II:  Experience and Embodiment in Practitioner-Patient Encounters

 

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