| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. By Anthony Cavender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xx, 266 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2824-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5493-X.)

Anthony Cavender, an anthropologist, has produced an exceptionally valuable treatise on folk healing in the southern Appalachians. Too often, surveys of folk medicine are simply dry recitations of old remedies; Cavender, however, has connected folk healing to the evolution of biomedicine. He has juxtaposed the two to illustrate their interconnection; he demonstrates how folk customs influenced the development of biomedicine and shows the role of science in shaping contemporary folk practices. He has done the same sort of thing for the Appalachian region as well, reminding us that the Appalachian experience was simply one iteration of a process that has occurred across the world, as old beliefs have been redefined when regions and peoples have been brought into contact with the industrialized state.

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