From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village
This case study will be the first to deal with a topic in medical anthropology. It explores the world of folk medicine in the Caribbean (Dominica) - local beliefs and practices concerning how the body functions and malfunctions and the home remedies Dominicans use to cure common illnesses. The case study goes beyond discussing the exotic medical system of a developing country (which includes sorcery and folk-illnesses) to discuss how folk medicine flourishes in industrialized countries in a way that is little different than that practiced in Dominica. The theme is that cultural ideas about the body and uses of medicinal plants are deeply inte…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-15-508567-1
- EAN: 9780155085671
- Produktnummer: 1578469
- Verlag: Wadsworth Inc Fulfillment
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D0.7 cm 231 g
- Gewicht: 231
Über den Autor
Marsha Quinlan is a broadly-experienced medical anthropologist with expertise in cultural notions of disease and healing and medical botany. Quinlan has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and teaches anthropology at Washington State University. She has conducted research with residents of this Dominican community since 1993.
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