Health Care in Maya Guatemala
Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country
When the traditional meets the modern, nowhere is the impact felt as personally as in the realm of health care. Because practitioners trained in Western science tend to ignore traditional medicine in developing countries, conflict is inevitable.Health Care in Maya Guatemala examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. The editors and contributors show how people in this rapidly modernizing society think about traditional practices-and reveal that health conditions in traditional communities deteriorate over time as long…
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Weitere Autoren: Hawkins, John Palmer
- ISBN: 978-0-8061-3859-6
- EAN: 9780806138596
- Produktnummer: 2929614
- Verlag: University Of Oklahoma Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 452 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 452
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