Story Medicine

NORMA J. LIVO, Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of Colorado at Denver, has written numerous books and articles on storytelling and has a national following as a storyteller. She has served on the board of directors for the National Storytelling Association and received the NSA leadership award for the Western region. She lives in Lakewood, Colorado.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword by James R.Regan, M.DA Short History of MedicineIntroductionSTORIES AND HEALINGTHE HEALING POWER OF STORIESPersonal StoriesGetting Ready for WinterWHAT IS HEALING?The Healing Traditions of the PastRing Around the RosesJack and JillLeechesLeech to the RescueLegends of Mate (South America)Wine As Doctor (Germany)HOW STORIES HEALStories As ConnectorsHumor As a Preventative and CureHealing the Spirit, the Family, and SocietyAging and DeathProcess of Healing Through NarrativeTHE STORIESHEALING THE SELFThe Princess Who Would Not Laugh (Norway)Iron Logic (Traditional Jewish Folktale)The Old Woman and the Physician (Greece)The Greedy Youngster (Norway)The Princess and the Soldiers (Scotland)Intelligence and Luck (Slavonia)The Cure for Axe Wounds in the Knee (Finland)Dance Like Nobody Is Watching (American Urban Myth)The Maiden Without Hands (Grimm Brothers, Germany)A Journey to the Underworld (Bantu)Salt (Russia)Guru's Advice (Tibet)Anansi's Greed for Common Sense (Jamaica)The Dog and the Wolf (Aesop, Greece)HEALING RELATIONSHIPSThe Cure (Syria)A Bird Couple's Vow (Hmong)The Lute Player (Russia)The Seventh Night of the Seventh Month (China)The Lake of Healing or Loughleagh (Ireland)Grandfather's Corner (Germany)The Doll (Ukraine)The Tiger's Whisker (Korea)The Mirror (China)The Seven Swans (Europe)HEALING THE COMMUNITYA Blessing Might in Fact Be a Curse (Ethiopia and Sudan)Mulla Nasreddin (Persia)Stone Soup (Ireland)The Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark)Silver Heels (Colorado, United States)The Wonder Doctor (Estonia)Constantine, the Emperor of Rome (Ancient Rome)The Holmolaiset Build a House (Finland)I'd Pick More Daisies (United States)Abandonment Canyon (Japan)The Golden Cup (Buryat)The Story of the Owl (Hmong)HEALING THE EARTHThe Little Water Medicine (Seneca)The Medicine Spear (Zambia)The Legend of Hackberry Hill (Colorado, United States)The Ptarmigan (Japan)The Rainbow (Iroquois)The Fallibility of Chiefs (Zaire)Creation, Flood, Naming Story (Hmong)The Grateful Foxes (Japan)Tibetan Creation (Tibet)Where Stories Come From (Seneca, Huron, and Wyandot)Appendix I: Healing Beliefs and LoreBeliefs and Practices Throughout the WorldNavajo Health Care SystemFoods That Are Taken When Ill (Hmong)Folk MedicineHerbal Lore from Around the WorldProverbs and QuotesAppendix II: Roots of Western MedicineHippocratic OathThe CaduceusBibliographyInternetOrganizationsIndex