Graduate Program Affiliations:
Humanities

Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania.

Email: dhufford@psu.edu

Research Interests

• Spirituality, Religion and Health
• Culture and Health (including both culturally appropriate care and the culture of medicine)
• Belief Systems (including folk and "complementary and alternative" healing)

Teaching

• Folk and Alternative Health Systems
• Religion and Health

Selected Publications

Barriers to the Entry of Spiritual Healing into "Mainstream" Science. In Wayne Jonas, editor, The Science and Spirituality of Healing, Harcourt, in press.

The Priority of Local Observation and Local Interpretation in Evaluating the Beliefs in Spirits. In Helmut Wautischer, editor, Toward An Ontology of Consciousness, Routledge, in press.

An Experience-Centered Approach to Hauntings. In J. Houran & R. Lange, eds., A Haunting Question of Perception: Scientific Perspectives on Hauntings & Poltergeists, McFarland, 2001.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine and Cultural Diversity: Ethics and Epistemology Converge. In Daniel Callahan, editor, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Scientific and Pluralistic Challenge, Georgetown University Press and The Hastings Center, 2001.

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