CURRENT RESEARCH

My colleague, Dr. Melissa Schrift, and I are currently working on a history of the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum (now the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute) in Marion, Virginia, focusing on the years from its founding in 1887 to 1935. I continue to explore various topics on ethnomedicine in southern Appalachia and Ecuador.



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

     

2011 (with Vivian Gonzales and Jorja Cummings) Curanderismo in Appalachia: The Use of Remedios Caseros among Latinos in Northeast Tennessee. Forthcoming in Journal of Appalachian Studies.

2009, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler (edited w/ Ted Olson), Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press and Tennessee Folklore Society.

2009, Magical Plants Used by Curanderos in the Ecuador Highlands, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 5(3). http://www.ethnobiomed.com/contents/5/3.

2006, Folk Medical Uses of Plant Foods in Southern Appalachia, USA, Journal of Ethnopharmacology , 108:74-84.

2003, Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

1996 (with Manuel Alban) Compulsory Medical Service in Ecuador: The Physician’s Perspective. Social Science and Medicine 47(12):1937-1946.

1996 Local Unorthodox Healers of Cancer in the Appalachian South.  Journal of Community Health 21(5):359-374.

1994   (with Scott Beck) Generational Change, Folk Medicine, and Medical Self-Care in a Rural Appalachian Community. Human Organization 54(2):129-142.

1992 Theoretic Orientations and Folk Medicine Research in the Appalachian South. Southern Medical Journal 85(2):170-178.

1992  Folk Hematology in the Appalachian South. Journal of Folklore Research 29(1):23-36

1988 The Professionalization of Traditional Medicine in Zimbabwe. Human Organization 47(3):251-254.