Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing

by EliseoCheoTorres (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2005

  $16.94

  Eliseo Torres, known as Cheo , grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practised in his home and neighbourhood. Part personal pilgrimage, part compendium of medical knowledge, this moving book reveals curanderismo as both a contemplative and a medical practice that can offer new approaches to ancient problems.

• New

  Illustrated
  2005

  $17.87

  Eliseo Torres, known as Cheo , grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practised in his home and neighbourhood. Part personal pilgrimage, part compendium of medical knowledge, this moving book reveals curanderismo as both a contemplative and a medical practice that can offer new approaches to ancient problems.