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The gray zones of medicine : healers & history in Latin America /
Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin America from the colonial period onward. The Gray Zones of Medicine offers a human, relatable, complex examination of the history of health and healing in Latin Americ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez
- 1. Domingo de la Ascensión and the Criollo Healing Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean / Pablo F. Gómez
- 2. The Curing World of María García, an Indigenous Healer in Eighteenth-Century Guatemala / Martha Few
- 3. Calundu : A Collective Biography of Spirit Possession in Bahia, 1618-Present / James H. Sweet
- 4. Dorotea Salguero and the Gendered Persecution of Unlicensed Healers in Early Republican Peru / Adam Warren
- 5. Pai Domingos : Healing Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil / João José Reis
- 6. Mystic of Medicine, Modern Curandero, and "Médico Improvisado" : Francisco I. Madero and the Practice of Homeopathy in Rural Mexico at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Jethro Hernández Berrones
- 7. Herbs, Roots, Amulets, and Prayers in the Practices of "Saint" Vicente and other Healers in São Paulo in the 1910s / Liane Maria Bertucci
- 8. Recognition without a Diploma : The Wanderings of the Healer Indio Rondín in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia / Victoria Estrada and Jorge Márquez Valderrama
- 9. The Miraculous Doctor Pun, Chinese Healers, and Their Patients in Lima, 1868-1930 / Patricia Palma and José Ragas
- 10. Stepping through a Looking Glass : The Haitian Healer Mauricio Gastón on the Romana Sugar Mill in the Dominican Republic in 1938 / Alberto Ortiz Díaz
- 11. Jesús Pueyo : The "Modern Argentine Pasteur" of the 1930s and 1940s / Diego Armus
- 12. Doña Hermila Diego: Zapotec Healer, Entrepreneur, Social Activist, Media Star in Modern Mexico / Gabriela Soto Laveaga.