Healing Logics provides an extensive, multicultural look at folk and alternative beliefs and practices concerning health and medicine and examines the interplay between formal and folk health care. It contains the following original contributions by leading scholars in the fields of medical anthropology and folk medicine:''Understanding Folk Medicine'' by Bonnie B. O'Conner and David J. Hufford, ''Invisible Hospitals: Botanicas in Ethnic Health Care'' by Michael Owen Jones and Patrick A. Polk, with Ysamur Flores-Pena and Roberta J. Evanchuk, ''Competing Logics and the Construction of Risk'' by Diane E. Goldstein, ''The New Age Sweat Lodge'' by William M. Clements, ''The Hozho Factor: The Logic of Navajo Healing'' by Barre Toelken
