Trying to Give Ease

o[This volume] will surely prove of lasting value to anthropologists, medical sociologists, and students of folklife no less than to members of other disciplines with a special interest ... in herbs and the how and why of their utilization.ONDavid Allen, Medical History oThis book merits praise as one of the best investigations of an herbalist and his context in the literature of folk medicine and as a powerful synthesis of important historical, social, and psychological factors in general folk medicine.ONNewsletter of the North Carolina Folk Society oAn important contribution to the sociology of medical thinking.ONVivian Nutton, Times Literary Supplement oTrying to Give Ease places BassOs practice in a cultural and historical context, with extensive essays on the polemics of herbal medicine in modern society and its influences.ONFosterOs Botanical and Herb Reviews

"[This volume] will surely prove of lasting value to anthropologists, medical sociologists, and students of folklife no less than to members of other disciplines with a special interest . . . in herbs and the how and why of their utilization."--David Allen, "Medical History"

The authors here focus on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late Appalachian herbalist "Tommie" Bass. "This book merits praise as one of the best investigations of an herbalist and his context in the literature of folk medicine and as a powerful synthesis of important historical, social, and psychological factors in general folk medicine".--NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FOLK SOCIETY.