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Medical Pluralism in the Andes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Capturing the intricacies of health practice within the fascinating context of Andean social history, cultural tradition, community and folklore, this is a remarkable and intimate chronicle of Andean culture and everyday life.

Maya Bonesetters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Maya Bonesetters

Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other hand, have been largely excluded from conversations about traditional health practitioners and community health resources. Maya Bonesetters is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural context—one in which a changing medical landscape potentially threatens bonesetters’ work yet presents an opportunity to strengthen its relevance. Drawing on extensive field research in highland Guatemala, Servando Z. Hinojosa introduces readers to a seldom documented, though no...

Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols.

Patients, Doctors and Healers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Patients, Doctors and Healers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-12-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism, Kristensen argues that medical practices are powerful social symbol indicative of overarching socio-political processes. As certain types of extreme and violent experiences–known as olvidos–lack a framework that allows them to be expressed openly, they therefore surface as symptoms of an illness, often with no apparent organic pathology. In these contexts, indigenous medicine, thanks to its sensitivity to socio-political contexts, provides a space for articulation and management of collective experiences and suffering among patients in Southern Chile.

Gendered Fields
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Gendered Fields

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of the ethnographer.

An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1566

An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies

Spanning the gamut from "Aaron" to "Zwingli," this dictionary includes nearly 3,000 entries written by about sixty authors, all of whom are specialists in their various theological and religious disciplines. The editors have designed the dictionary especially to aid the introductory-level student with instant access to definitions of terms likely to be encountered in, but not to substitute for, classroom presentations or reading assignments. - Publisher.

Unequal Cures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Unequal Cures

DIVFirst systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health./div

Archiv 57/58
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Archiv 57/58

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A Companion to Medical Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropology A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in medical anthropology, this comprehensive reference work presents critical assessments and interpretations of a wide range of topical themes, including global and environmental health, political violence and war, poverty, malnutrition, substance abuse, reproductive health, and infectious diseases. Throughout the text, readers explore the global, historical, and political ...

Worlds of Psychotic People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Worlds of Psychotic People

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Gives insight into the daily interactions of therapists and patients - exchanges which are usually kept hidden from the public Suitable both for interested outsiders and for healthcare professionals wishing to think about their career area Has chapters on some common aspects of mental illness - hiding in talk, living in two worlds, alienation, life and death terrors - asking how these are handled in clinical practice