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Sacred cures and scientific cures: The evolution of folk medicine

Funder: Issachar Fund
Duration: April 2020 - March 2022

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Dr Micheal De Barra Dr Micheal De Barra
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 265359
E: micheal.debarra@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265359 micheal.debarra@brunel.ac.uk Quad North 129
Dr Aiyana Willard Dr Aiyana Willard
Reader in Psychology
T: +44 (0)1895 265151
E: aiyana.willard@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265151 aiyana.willard@brunel.ac.uk Quad North 126

Outputs

de Barra, M., Jiménez, ÁV., Rosun, N. and Willard, AK. (2025) 'Mysterious illnesses have supernatural and ritualistic cures: Evidence from 3,655 century-old Irish folk cures'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 122 (49). ISSN: 0027-8424 Open Access Link

Journal article