Faith Healers in the Philippines
by CHESI, Gert
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- Hardcover
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Schilde, Belgium
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About This Item
(Worlg),: Perliner,, (1981).. 255, [i] pp. Large 4to. Original cloth with pictorial dust jacket. With numerous photographs by the author, of which many full colour and double-page. A most interesting account of this remarkable aspect of 'medicine'. The pictures showing famous Philippine healers in, often bloody actions, reaching into patient's bodies to perform their healing.
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- Bookseller
- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books (BE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 644
- Title
- Faith Healers in the Philippines
- Author
- CHESI, Gert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Perliner,
- Place of Publication
- (Worlg),
- Date Published
- (1981).
- Keywords
- quackery folk medicine healing alternative medicine philippine photography travel anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- oriental medicine;
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About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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