An Urban Medicine Woman and Integrated Medicine
Abstract
In a recent video documentary about Wanita Windwalker, an urban medicine woman, Philip Singer, Ph.D., an anthropologist, professor, School of Health Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, documents how one alternative practitioner created a unique professional identity, developed an idiosyncratic mix of therapies, and intervened holistically in people's lives rather than just in treating diseases as such. This documentary also illustrates how one can cause harm by failing to integrate traditional healing with biomedicine.