Prof. Patrisia Gonzales is author of new book on Indigenous Medicine

The University of Arizona Press has just published Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing by Patrisia Gonzales of the MAS faculty.

From the UA Press notice:

"Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into...