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Star of deliverance
Emi, a Savian girl born into a war-ravaged country, has been raised to be the next healer for her deprived and malnourished people, but when a young boy stumbles into their clinic with an untreatable disease, Emi goes out to find a cure despite the dangers of her country.
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Healing Secular Life
In contemporary Turkey-a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation-the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with healers and their patients in working-class neighborhoods of urban Turkey, anthropologist Christopher Dole concludes that the religious healer should be regarded not as an exception to Turkey's secular modern development but as one of its defining figures.Healing Secular Lifedemonstrates that religious healing and secularism in fact have a set of common stakes in the ordering of lives and the remaking of worlds.
Linking the history of medical reforms and scientific literacy campaigns to contemporary efforts of Qur'anic healers to treat people afflicted by spirits and living saints through whom deceased political leaders speak,Healing Secular Lifeapproaches stories of healing and being healed as settings for examining the everyday social intimacies of secular political rule. This ethnography of loss, care, and politics reveals not only that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within the history of secular modern reform in Turkey but also that personal narratives of suffering and affliction are inseparable from the story of a nation seeking to recover from the violence of its own secular past.
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The shifter
Nya, a fifteen-year-old war orphan, becomes a pawn in a bigger political game when her uncanny--and dangerous--ability to draw out people's pain and then give it to someone else turns out to be the only weapon she has to save her sister.
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In Amma's Healing Room
\"[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives... No other book on South Asia has material like this.\" -Ann Grodzins Gold
In Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the \"healing room,\" Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. Flueckiger collaborated closely with Amma and relates to her at different moments as daughter, disciple, and researcher. The result is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India and reveals the creativity of a tradition often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.
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The Venetian bargain
\"Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway--Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan's concubine\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Experiences and perspectives on traditional and faith healers’ involvement in the care of people with severe mental health conditions in ethiopia: a scoping review
Background
Traditional and faith healers (TFHs) play a prominent role in the care of people with severe mental health conditions (MHCs) in many countries. Consequently, there have been calls for closer collaboration between TFHs and mental health care practitioners. This scoping review aimed to map the literature on the experiences of, and perspectives on, traditional and faith healing for people with severe MHCs in Ethiopia.
Methods
The review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. Pubmed, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, and PsycINFO databases were searched from the earliest available records to May 2024. Online student MSc/PhD theses and catalogued Ethiopian publications up to 2015 were also searched. Studies were included if they were in English and of any study design using primary data collection. Narrative synthesis was chosen for data synthesis.
Results
Of the 3,824 records identified, 31 were included. There were 17 qualitative, 12 quantitative, and two mixed methods studies, conducted in most regions in Ethiopia but with more focus on urban than rural settings. Findings were synthesised under the following themes: perceived causes of MHCs; pathways to care and help-seeking preferences; identification and intervention methods used by TFHs; experience of treatment, satisfaction with care, gaps, and barriers; and collaboration between TFHs and mental health practitioners. People with severe MHCs commonly accessed TFHs first and alongside biomedical care. A substantial range of healers was identified but they were not accessible or acceptable to all communities equally. TFH interventions were diverse and some of their practices were reported to be harmful. However, there were few in-depth studies of TFH care processes. Furthermore, there was little evidence about the experience of care from the perspective of people with severe MHCs. Efforts toward collaboration emphasised the need to develop relationships within which differences could be negotiated.
Conclusion
Although much is known about the place of TFHs within care pathways for people with MHCs in Ethiopia, there are evidence gaps in relation to the perspectives of people with MHCs and rich contextual understanding of healing processes, both of which are needed for meaningful collaboration to occur.
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Scientific revolutionaries. Catharine Haines
During the American Revolutionary War, teenager Catharine Haines recorded remedies and recipes that she hoped would help her community – and even professional doctors – battle disease and preserve knowledge.
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The clockwork crown
Healer Octavia Leander and Clockwork Dagger Alonzo Garrett must band together to reach the territory known as the Waste and survive the civil war brewing there if they're to learn the reasons behind Octavia's growing powers and inexplicable transformation.
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The image of Mesopotamian divine healers : healing goddesses and the legitimization of professional asûs in the Mesopotamian medical marketplace
This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to asûs, \"healers\". Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt provides unprecedented insight into the diverse Mesopotamian medical marketplace and how professional healers operating within it legitimized themselves.
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