Healing practices in the South Pacific / 
edited by Claire D.F. Parsons. 
 - xii, 250 pages :  maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Maps on lining papers. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index. 
<br/><br/>Samoan medicine / Cluny Macpherson -- Illness and healing in Nanumea, Tuvalu / Anne Chambers and Keith S. Chambers -- Healing in central Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu / Tomas Ludvigson -- Contemporary healing practices in Tikopia, Solomon Islands / Judith Macdonald -- Tongan healing practices / Claire D.F. Parsons -- Contemporary healing practices in East Futuna / Bruce Biggs -- Traditional healing practices of Rarotonga, Cook Islands / Josephine Baddeley -- Physical and social boundaries in Pukapukan theories of disease / Julia A. Hecht -- Tahitian healing / Antony Hooper -- Midwives and midwifery in Western Samoa / Patricia J. Kinloch -- Notes on Maori sickness knowledge and healing practices / Claire D.F. Parsons. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0939154412 9780939154418 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85014191  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>8609024  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Polynesians--Medicine.<br/>Traditional medicine--Oceania.<br/>Healing--Oceania.<br/>Social medicine--Oceania.