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Title

Dreams coming true- : an indigenous health programme in the Peruvian Amazon / compiled and edited by Søren Hvalkof.

Publication

Copenhagen : Karen Elise Jensen Foundation, in collaboration with NORDECO, Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology ; Lima : AIDESEP, Associación Interétnica del Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Hvalkof, Søren.
• Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology
• Karen Elise Jensen Foundation.
• Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana.

Description

335 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

[This book] focuses on the extraordinary achievements the indigenous movement in the Upper Amazon has accomplished in establishing its own alternative health service--Cover.

Subject

• Tropical Medicine
• Rural Health Services
• Program Development
• Medicine, Traditional
• Health Services, Indigenous
• Rural health services > Peru
• Traditional medicine > Peru
• Medical care > Peru
• Tropical medicine > Peru
• Peru

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Soren Hvalkof -- AIDESEP and the indigenous perspective / Gil Inoach Shawit and Juan Reategui Silva -- Project summary / Thomas Skielboe -- Place, people and history / Soren Hvalkof -- The origins of the indigenous health programme -- The development of the PSI-AIDESEP project / Thomas Skielboe -- A funding soul -- notes from the field / Darte Mette Jensen -- Voices I : the nurses -- The Cayman attack : testimonies of the victim and the nurse -- The indigenous health programme -- PSI-AIDESEP / Juan Reategui Silva -- Indigenous and non-indigenous concepts and knowledge in the development process / Juan Reategui Silva -- Shamanism / Juan Reategui Silva -- Voices II : indigenous specialists -- Medical aspects I : working in the field / Luis Torres Tuesta -- Medical aspects II : nursing / Sofia Vivanco Hilaro -- Bridging the gap between western and indigenous medicine / Bente Korsgaard and Jim Thuesen Pedersen -- Voices III : leaders, promoters and patients -- The future of the indigenous health programme / Juan Reategui -- Towards a training programme for indigenous health technicians / Juan Reategui Silva -- Epilogue / Soren Hvalkof -- Map 1. AIDESEP : member organisations -- Map 2. Peru : working areas of the PSI-AIDESEP -- Map 3. Main area river systems -- Map 4. Communities of the three indigenous organisations -- Map 5. OAGP -- affiliated communities -- Map 6. ORDECONADIT -- affiliated communities -- Map 7. OIRA -- affiliated communities

ISBN

8798616870 (English edition : pbk.)

OCLC

• 59616980
• SCSB-9900474

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library