Spiritualist Healers in Mexico: Successes and Failures of Alternative Therapeutics

This book combines a positivist analysis of how Spiritualist cures heal with the experiential aspects of the healing process. This is done by providing patients' perceptions and narratives of their sickness and its alleviation. Thus, the book provides "thick description" as well as a scientific analysis of Spiritualist beliefs and practices. By so doing, Spiritualist understandings are translated into our western comprehensions of the healing process, using physiological, psychological, cultural and sociological paradigms.