Reinterpreting women in healing roles, Carol Shepherd McLain. Part 2 Women as informal healers: the forgotten healers: women as family healers in an Andean Indian community, Ruthbeth Finerman; it's all in a name: local-level female healers in Sri Lanka, Carolyn Nordstrom; the management of reproduction in an egalitarian society, Carole H. Browner. Part 2 Healing with female metaphors: mothering and the practice of "Balm" in Jamaica, William Wedenoja; the socioreligious role of the Christian science practitioner, Margery Fox; healing with mother metaphors: Serbian conjurers' word magic, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern. Part 3 Women as ritual specialists: old ghosts and ungrateful children: a Korean shaman's story, Laurel Kendal; becoming a Puerto Rican espiritista: life history as a female healer, Merrill Singer Roberta Garcia; mystical black power: the calling to diviner-mediumship in Southern Africa, Edward C.Green. Part 4 Women healers in contemporary rural and urban Benin, Carolyn Sargent, sisterhood and professionalization: a case study of the American lay midwife, Margaret Reid.
