Health care in Maya Guatemala : confronting medical pluralism in a developing country /
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| Author / Creator: | Adams, Walter Randolph. |
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| Imprint: | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xvii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6644212 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: The Continuing Disjunction between Traditional and Western Medical Beliefs and Practices in Guatemala
- Part I. The Health Care System in Guatemala: Cultural, Institutional, and Behavioral Perspectives
- 1. "Someone Is Making You Sick": Conceptions of Disease in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan
- 2. "No One Wants to Become a Healer": Herbal Medicine and Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Nahuala
- 3. "If We Do Not Eat Milpa, We Die": The Cultural Basis of Health in Nahuala
- 4. "The Solution Is Prevention": The National Rural Health Care System in Nahuala
- 5. "The Sickness Was Too Strong": Medical Choice in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan
- Part II. The Nature and Treatment of Specific Conditions
- 6. "Your Destiny Is to Care for Pregnant Women": Midwives and Childbirth in Nahuala
- 7. "Tortillas Give Us Strength": An Assessment of Eating in Nueva Ixtahuacan
- 8. "Wild Greens Every Day, That Is All We Ate": Malnutrition and Development in Nahuala
- 9. "If My Tooth Hurts, I Pull It Out": Oral Health in Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan
- 10. Sadness in the Highlands: A Study of Depression in Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan
- Conclusion: Good Medicine: Steps Toward a Maya-Accessible Health Care System
- Glossary
- References Cited
- Undergraduate Student Contributors
- Index
