Health in the highlands : indigenous healing and scientific medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Carey, David, Jr., 1967- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Description:	1 online resource (xxviii, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Subject:	Traditional medicine -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century. Traditional medicine -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century. Medical care -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century. Medical care -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century. Medical care. Traditional medicine. Ecuador. Guatemala.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13148763

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Other authors / contributors:	Greene, Jeremy A., 1974- writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9780520975682 (electronic bk.) 0520975685 (electronic bk.) 9780520344785 0520344782 9780520344792 0520344790
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Other form:	Online version: Carey, David, Jr., 1967- Health in the highlands Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520975682 Original 9780520344785 0520344782 9780520344792 0520344790

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Jeremy A. Greene
Introduction : disease, healing, and medicine in indigenous highlands
Hookworm, histories, and health : indigenous healing, state building, and Rockefeller representatives
Curses and cures : empíricos, indigeneity, and scientific medicine
Engendering infant mortality and public health : midwifery, obstetrics, and ethnicity
"Malnourished, scrawny, emaciated Indios" : perceptions of indigeneity, illness, and healing
Infectious indígenas : the ethnicity of highland diseases
"Prisoners of malaria" : a lowland disease in the mountains
Conclusion : indigeneity, racist thought, and modern medicine.

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