ANTH 3500 - Appalachian Folk Medicine(3 credits)
The study of folk medical beliefs and practices, focusing on Southern Appalachia from the late 1800s to 1940. Topics examined include folk materia medica and therapeutics, magico-religious beliefs and practices, folk healers, folk concepts of illness and human physiology.
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