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Folk healing, authenticity and fraud (2014)
Book Chapter
McClean, S., & Moore, R. (2014). Folk healing, authenticity and fraud. In A. van Eck Duymaer van Twist (Ed.), Minority Religions and Fraud: In Good Faith. London: Ashgate

Folk-inspired healing such as folk healing, spiritual healing and crystal healing are part of a broad healing system that can be defined in an anthropological sense as minority religion since it exhibits many of the same features. Folk healers may th... Read More about Folk healing, authenticity and fraud.

Folk healing and a post-scientific world (2010)
Book Chapter
Moore, R., & McClean, S. (2010). Folk healing and a post-scientific world. In R. Moore, & S. McClean (Eds.), Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands or Crystals (22-54). New York, US: Berghahn Books

Epilogue: Towards authentic medicine: Bodies and boundaries (2010)
Book Chapter
McClean, S., & Moore, R. (2010). Epilogue: Towards authentic medicine: Bodies and boundaries. In R. Moore, & S. McClean (Eds.), Folk healing and health care practices in Britain and Ireland: stethoscopes, wands or crystals. Berghahn Books

Globalization and health (2007)
Book Chapter
McClean, S. (2007). Globalization and health. In J. Orme, J. Powell, P. Taylor, & M. Grey (Eds.), Public Health for the 21st Century: New Perspectives on Policy, Participation and Practice (204-222). Open University Press