Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems
Erika Brady, PhD, holds degrees in folklore from Harvard, UCLA, and Indiana University. She is currently associate professor and director of folk studies and anthropology at Western Kentucky University. A former chaplain associate at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at University of South Alabama and is affiliated with the South Central Kentucky Area Health Education Center. Her book A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography appeared in 1999 (University Press of Mississippi).