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Medical pluralism in the Andes / edited by Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas Leatherman, and Christine Greenway ; with a foreword by June Nash.
- Title
- Medical pluralism in the Andes / edited by Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas Leatherman, and Christine Greenway ; with a foreword by June Nash.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | L.SOC.120.P.8.27.20 (9) | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 256 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 9
- Uniform Title
- Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health v. 9.
- Subject
- Bolivia
- Cultural Diversity
- Ecuador
- Health Behavior
- Health Services, Indigenous
- Indians of South America > Health and hygiene > Andes Region
- Indians of South America > Medicine > Andes Region
- Indians, South American
- Medical anthropology > Andes Region
- Medical care > Andes Region
- Medicine > Andes Region
- Medicine, Traditional
- Peru
- Public health > Andes Region
- Rural Health Services
- Social medicine > Andes Region
- Note
- Outgrowth of two conferences held at the American Anthropological Association in 1994 and 1996.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Perspectives on medical anthropology in the Andes / Ann Miles and Thomas Leatherman -- Ethnography and the person : reflections on Libbet Crandon's fieldwork in Bolivia / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Changing times and changing symptoms : the effects of modernization on mestizo medicine in rural Bolivia (the case of two mestizo sisters) / Libbet Crandon -- Contributions to a critical analysis of medical pluralism : an examination of the work of Libbet Crandon-Malamud / Hans A. Baer -- Setting it straight in the Andes : musculoskeletal distress and the role of the componedor / Kathryn S. Oths -- Healing soul loss : the negotiation of identity in Peru / Christine Greenway -- Healers as entrepreneurs : constructing an image of legitimized potency in urban Ecuador / Ann Miles.
- Ethnomedicine and enculturation in the Andes of Ecuador / Lauris A. McKee -- Food, health, and identity in a rural Andean community / Margaret A. Graham -- Sucking blood or snatching fat : Chagas' disease in Bolivia / Joseph William Bastien -- Why sobreparto? : women's work, health, and reproduction in two districts in southern Peru / Anne C. Larme and Thomas Leatherman -- Illness management, social alliance, and cultural identity in Quito, Ecuador / Laurie J. Price -- Anthropology and Shamanism : bottom-line considerations in image and practice / Bonnie Glass-Coffin.
- ISBN
- 0415299187 (hc.)
- 0415299209 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2002075186
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library