The Art Of Healing Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine Healy PB Aboriginal AU

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Pre-owned illustrated softcover in clean, lightly used condition. Glossy white covers show light shelf and handling wear with faint surface scuffs, a few small marks and minor edge and corner rubbing. Spine and binding are firm without reading creases, and page edges remain even and tidy. Interior pages are clean, bright and securely bound throughout, with no writing, highlighting, underlining, tears or loose leaves. Item includes the single paperback volume only; no supplementary materials are included.

Author: Jacqueline Healy (editor)

Title: The Art of Healing: Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine

Format: Illustrated softcover exhibition catalogue and essay collection

Publisher: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne

Publication details: Published by the Medical History Museum at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, as a companion volume to the exhibition The Art of Healing: Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine.

Language: English

Original language: English

Genre: Art & culture; health, treatments & medicine; history; Indigenous studies

Narrative type: Non-fiction collection of essays, artist statements and catalogue entries documenting Australian Indigenous bush medicine and healing practices.

Country of origin: Australia

Intended audience: Adult readers interested in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, bush medicine, contemporary Indigenous art, museum collections and Australian medical history.

Topics: The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bush medicine, traditional and contemporary healing practices, holistic approaches to wellbeing, community-controlled health services, bush foods and medicinal plants, culture and education, resilience and wellbeing, and the role of museums and exhibitions.

Type: Museum exhibition catalogue bringing together scholarly essays, community reflections, artwork reproductions and object descriptions that illustrate the enduring presence and evolution of Indigenous healing knowledge.

Contents: Includes an acknowledgement of Country, introductory material on the exhibition, thematic sections on healing and the power of culture and education, Tasmanian Aboriginal knowledge, reflections on bush medicine homes and enterprises, case studies of central Australian healing centres such as Akeyulerre, and detailed catalogue entries for artworks and medical objects with notes and references.

Details: Medium-format square softcover volume with glossy white covers, a red spine with white title lettering, a front cover design featuring stylised yellow plant forms against a red panel, and a back cover photograph of a traditional medicine kit; printed on smooth white stock with clear serif text.

Illustrations: Richly illustrated throughout with colour photographs of artworks, bush medicines and plants, community healing centres, archival images and exhibition installations, together with reproductions of contemporary Indigenous paintings and prints.

Features: Produced by the Medical History Museum as a record of The Art of Healing exhibition, combining curatorial essays, artist biographies, community stories and detailed image captions in an accessible layout suitable for study, reference or appreciation of Aboriginal bush medicine and healing practice.

Keywords: The Art of Healing Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine Jacqueline Healy Medical History Museum University of Melbourne Aboriginal health Indigenous bush medicine contemporary Aboriginal art exhibition catalogue softcover book Australia.

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