1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778103103321

Autore

Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950->

Titolo

African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8147-9635-4

0-8147-5962-9

1-4356-0736-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

398.2089/96073

Soggetti

African Americans

African Americans - Medicine

Medicine shows - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Historical paths to healing  -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing  -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through



conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996575047803316

Titolo

280-2021 : IEEE Standard Letter Symbols for Quantities Used in Electrical Science and Electrical Engineering / / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, USA : , : IEEE, , 2021

ISBN

1-5044-7700-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (62 pages)

Disciplina

621.30218

Soggetti

Electrical engineering - Standards

Electric measurements

Electrical engineering - Notation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Letter symbols to represent various quantities used in electrical science and technology are presented in this standard.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911006525003321

Autore

Johnson David E (David Earl)

Titolo

Well logging in nontechnical language / / David E. Johnson & Kathryne E. Pile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tulsa, OK, : PennWell Pub., c2006

ISBN

1-59370-893-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PileKathryne E

Disciplina

622/.18282

Soggetti

Oil well logging

Petroleum engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""A WORD TO THE READER""; ""1 INTRODUCTION TO LOGGING""; ""2 READING LOGS""; ""3 FORMATION PARAMETERS""; ""4 MUD LOGGING""; ""5 RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENT""; ""6 POROSITY MEASUREMENTS""; ""7 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER""; ""8 DETAILED INTERPRETATION""; ""9 COMPUTER-GENERATED INTERPRETATIONS""; ""10 BEYOND WATER SATURATION""; ""11 COMPLETION LOGS""; ""12 MONITORING THE WELL AND RESERVOIR""; ""AFTERWORD""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""NOMENCLATURE""; ""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

An update of the PennWell classic Nontechnical Guide to Logging Techniques, this text provides an easy-to-understand overview of the technically complex subject of well logging. This book will be very useful to bankers, landmen, geology and engineering technicians, clerks, secretaries, and others who need a basic understanding of well logs to perform their jobs.