Creative response to alternative medicine: Clients of a modern Finnish healer in a northwestern Ontario city

Journal/Book: Qual Health Res. 2000; 10: 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. Sage Publications Inc. 214-224.

Abstract: Antti Auttaja is a Finnish Canadian businessman who practices alternative medicine in a northwestern Ontario city. His healing method involves pressing his hands and fingers firmly but gently on the feet, wrists, stomach, chest, and other bodily areas of his clients, who recline on their backs on the floor, with pillows propped under their head and knees. His clients respect him and his healing ability, and as the questionnaire and interview data present ed in this article clearly show, they feel he has helped them enhance their quality of life in a way that is unique to him and very special to them. He exemplifies a holistic healer working along the periphery of the modem biomedical system. His practice exemplifies the alternative medicine category of the domain of nonconventional medicine.

Note: Article Warkentin R, Lakehead Univ, Dept Anthropol, 955 Oliver Rd, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, CANADA

Keyword(s): COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE; OUTCOMES

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