Prepared Not Paranoid or Healing Logics

Prepared Not Paranoid: Lessons from Law Enforcement for Living Every Day Safely

Author: Jana M Kemp

In the wake of 9/11, many Americans feel their individual safety is threatened by forces they cannot control. Some take drastic measures and move from metropolitan areas thought to be targets, while most stay put and try to find ways to protect themselves in their homes, their workplaces, and their communities. Still, a sense of vulnerability or uncertainty can undermine feelings of safety and security. Today's dangerous world calls for daily personal power that overcomes paranoia and puts people back in control of their lives and their sense of safety. Drawing on 34 years of law enforcement work and training, co-authors Doug Graves and Jana Kemp present useful information and practical guidelines for keeping yourself, family members, and co-workers as safe as possible every day. Prepared-Not Paranoid presents methods for recognizing challenges or threats, innovative ways of thinking about safety, checklists with actions to take in various settings, and items to have handy when traveling to the local convenience store or around the world. This book serves as a guide for safe daily living, not as a self-defense manual. The authors raise awareness and offer important information so people feel more confident moving through daily life as safely as possible.

Interesting textbook: Ahrens Fox Fire Apparatus Photo Archive or Quotations of Theodore Roosevelt

Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

Author: Brady

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.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	prologue
1	Introduction	3
2	Understanding Folk Medicine	13
3	Invisible Hospitals: Botanicas in Ethnic Health Care	39
4	The Poor Man's Medicine Bag: The Empirical Folk Remedies of Tillman Waggoner	88
5	Integrating Personal Health Belief Systems: Patient-Practitioner Communication	115
6	Competing Logics and the Construction of Risk	129
7	The New Age Sweat Lodge	143
8	Evergeeen: The Enduring Voice of a Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Healer	163
9	Reflections on the Experience of Healing: Whose Logic? Whose Experience?	183
10	The Hozho Factor: The Logic of Navajo Healing	197
	Bibliography of Folklore and Medicine	211
	Contributors	278
	Index	284