Essays on Healer

The document on shamanism prevents a detailed, in-depth look at the major aspects of the modality and how it is applied. The interesting thing about the text is its approach: despite the spiritual nature of its subject matter, it manages to present a no-nonsense approach to the topic. Every chapter in the document contains a combination of descriptions, directions, vignettes, caveats that entertain as well instruct (Anon. 1-77). It may be tempting to dismiss the text as New Age “mumbo-jumbo” due to its non-empirical nature. However, it has a very methodical, organized, matter-of-fact communication style that warrants at least ...

Why I choose AcuCare Centre?

As a part of the field assignment, I visited the AcuCare Centre, 12133 Pembroke Road, Pembroke Pines, FL33025. I choose this particular place for my assignment, as I wanted to know about the method of “healing through touch”, as I would call it. Reiki is an alternative medicine that is sought by many for stress and chronic diseases. My aunt is particularly supportive of the center and has recommended it to me. She has sought alternative medicine to treat her migraine problems. She found allopathic medicine ineffective and replete with side effects.

Initial impression of the center:

On entering the center, there was a ...

Abstract

Homecare providers play a significant role in delivering a variety of health care and supportive services to the community. The homecare professional may be for-profit or not-for-profit depending on the agency or the source of funding for the healthcare services offered. The following paper provides an analysis of the Best Healer home based Wound Care Company aimed at offering wound care services to African Americans living in Jackson, Mississippi. The need to overcome health care disparities among minority communities in the country supports the company's establishment. The company is expected to serve more than 700,000 persons. The analysis ...

The African Experience, The Healers

The novel the healers, showcases major factors that have certain effects on the survival and destruction of the African community in the 19th century. According to the author, the factors that contributed to the potential destruction and survival of the African continent are; disunity and fragmentation as well as efforts put in place to consolidate individuals in this empire. These factors have been well illustrated by the characters in the novel and the severe effects they had in the Asante empire. These factors are seen to also affect Africa in the 21st Century. The writer has also made extensive ...

Reader Response Based on Film and Readings- Pioneer Women in Medical Front

The book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812, was written by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in reference to the diary of an 18th century American midwife and healer, Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812). The documentary film, The American Experience, was based on the Ulrich’s book. During the period of 3 decades (from 1785-1812), Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her life as a midwife and healer and housewife with children. Her records illustrate struggles and tragedies that she faced within her family and the society as a whole during ...

Q.1) White privilege can be defined as the societal privileges accorded to the white men beyond what is commonly experienced with the other people of different races (non-whites) in the same political or socio-economic circumstances. The implications of the white privilege have been experienced in all sectors as many non-whites have obstacles to make it economically or in education. Lyles noted that she attended a low quality school that was poorly equipped and most teachers spoke racial undertones. Almustafa, on the other hand, faced stereotypes as his guidance and counseling teacher always thought that he could not achieve much. In ...

Section A - Observing a Verse (Psalm 93:1)

The theme of the verse is the greatness of the Lord. The verse talks of how great and mighty the Lord is and praises him for his marvelous works. It expresses the Strength of the Lord and his majesty. The verse praises the name of the Lord and praises him for his wonderful work of creating the earth and protecting it from destruction.

Section B - Reading the Bible as for the First Time (Luke 15:11-32)

As you read through the eyes of these various people, the text might reveal new insights you had not noticed yet. Reading with the perspective of different people helps one understand the story of the ...

Essay on Black Elk's

A developed religion is an integrated system of belief, lifestyle, ritual activities, and social institutions by which individuals give meaning to (or find meaning in) their lives by orienting themselves to what they take to be holy, sacred, or of highest value.

The Black Elk’s religion is a developed religion in that it consists of both various beliefs and ritual activities as well as lifestyles of the followers. This religion consists of various aspects of Christianity and Lakota. This therefore entailed various aspects of healing and curing disease due to the power of the religion. This religion is concerned ...

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was more successful as a writer and traveler than he was as a conquisidator. He was an early explorer, exploring the New World hailing from Spain, as well as a protoanthropological author. He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz in the year 1490 into a wealthy family. Orphaned at a very early age, Cabeza grew up under care of his maternal aunt. Pedro de Vera, his grandfather, had conquered the Canary Islands and would serve a large shadow in Cabeza de Vaca’s ambitions in ‘the new world’ America. His name cabeza means ‘head’ and de Vaca means ‘ ...

History I Section 263

The practices of childbirth and delivery have changed drastically throughout history. With the advances in science and technology and growing knowledge over the years, America has been delivering healthier babies than ever. But unlike now, in early America midwives played a large role in child delivery and child care, “When the English settled in America they brought the traditional English customs and practices of childbirth to the New World.” Midwives were more than just someone who delivered a baby; they also acted as the nurse and were a friend to the pregnant woman throughout her labor. Midwives felt a lot of responsibility for ...

Dear Lilly,

I am happy to know that you have successfully completed another year of your nursing course. As you know, yours is one of the many professions which directly help the people-their body, heart and soul. Of course, you will be exposed to a lot of opportunities, challenges, and life lessons but ultimately you will get satisfaction. It will grow you as a healer. We all will be proud to have you, a healer, in our family. I also came to know that you have dropped your hobby of taking music lessons, as you thought it was a waste of time. That news ...

In search for a definition for Catholicism, a universally accepted one is “Adherence to the forms of Christian doctrine and practice which are generally regarded as Catholic rather than Protestant or Eastern Orthodox.” (Oxford Dictionaries). In the midst of a world that struggles to survive and live through wars, anxiety, injustice, greed, and devalued relationships, among others, the Second Vatican Council has declared that those that can provide the generations to come with reasons to life for and look life with optimism, hold the future of humanity (USCCB). Bearing that in mind, one can say that Catholicism is a faith and hope-centered religion ...

Describe the religious beliefs and remedies influencing the Latino patient in the USA

Introduction The term Latino is always referred to as a linguistic community, and not the one sharing one culture. This group is diverse with there ancestors originating from the Central American, Caribbean, and S. American countries (Stone, 85). On the other hand, the assorted use of Latino and Hispanic terms in literature is always attributed to diversity of sub-groups of the Cuban American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican populations within broader context. A regional and state difference that uses the terms are usually found or noted in Southwest. For instance, the identifiers Mexican American or Hispanic are mostly used ...

Abstract

Christianity could be considered a religious faith that has most racial representation in the American societies as this paper will be endeavoring to elucidate herein giving examples from the Watunna society. It has followers from almost all racial and ethnic origin. However, other religious faiths such as Islam and Hindu exist among the Caribbean, Africa Americans and the Native American communities. Islam, which was brought into the Caribbean as the slave religion, found its death naturally in the hands of Spaniards but later reborn when the Indian migrants came the Caribbean. While both Islamic and Hindu faiths of Indians received ...

Introduction

Cabeza de Vaca is a Spanish explorer and one of the four toughies who survived the 1527 Narvaez expedition that had really costed us more than 600 lives of our friends (Nunez & Harold, 12). We travelled for eight years across the US Southwest to Texas. The journey was very demanding and full of challenges but we had devoted ourselves into it. During the expedition, we happened to have taken different routes. Since were the only Spanish comrades that Cabeza could find moral support from, he decided to roam across the American continent searching for us. In the process, he ...

Euthanasia is defined as the procedure when “someone other than the 'patient'—a doctor, nurse or someone else—performs an action, such as a lethal injection, which brings about death” (Glover). Assisted-suicide occurs when an individual, usually a doctor, enlists the aid to end one’s own life, without participating in the killing directly (Glover). However, pulling out the plug of a life sustaining machine or refuse treatment is not considered physician-assisted suicide and it is legal in most states, since it is perceived as allowing nature to take its course (Oregon Right to Life). Euthanasia and whether one has the right to ...

Public Health Strategies to Improve Snakebite Treatment

There are over 3,000 species of snakes in the world; most bite, 600 are poisonous; some 200 are medically important (World Health Organization). In 1954, Swaroop and Grab published the most comprehensive analysis to date of the global distribution and prevalence of snakebites. By their own admission, their data represented but a rough estimate of the worldwide prevalence of snakebites; nevertheless, the magnitude of the snakebite problem in certain areas of the world was immediately apparent to the World Health Organization. The highest figures reported were for Asia, followed by those for South America. Later research (Gutierrez, 2010; ...

This story is one of the stories published in Richard Selzer’s collection of stories known as Doctor Stories. The story begins with a graphic scene that takes the reader by surprise (or perhaps shock) and compels him or her to read further—a naked woman attempting to reach inside her body through an opening in her stomach. The doctor who catches her in the act is faced with the dilemma of dealing with a psychologically unwell patient, who is making a bizarre effort to relieve herself of the pain she is going through after surgery. In an effort to locate the centre ...

One of the foundational principles of modern anthropology is that cultural phenomena are not to be judged through the prism of cultural bias. In Madumo, A Man Bewitched, Adam Ashforth blurs the line between observer and participant but preserves the sanctity of cultural context. His book is a hybrid of sorts, a melding of fiction and ethnography, a story and an observation, but it does not seek to make the subject matter more palatable or comfortable for a Western reader. Ashforth lays the story before his audience and tells us that when it comes to spiritual matters, he is unquestionably a man of science, a ...