Drum and stethoscope : integrating ethnomedicine and biomedicine in Bolivia /
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
©1992.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Articulation of Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine: Objectives, Problems, and Strategies. 1. Biomedical Centrism: Deficiencies of Biomedicine in Primary Health Care. 2. Quack Doctors, Superstition, and Witchcraft / Joseph W. Bastien and Henri Migala
- pt. II. Herbalists and Shamans: Opposition and Adaptation to Biomedicine. 3. Adaptive Strategies of Bolivian Herbalists to Biomedicine. 4. Shamans under Siege: Psychosocial Therapy
- pt. III. Mediators between Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine: Community Health Workers and Midwives. 5. Community Health Workers: Bridging the Gap between Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine. 6. Midwives and Maternal and Infant Health Care / Joseph W. Bastien and Nancy Edens
- pt. IV. Doctors, Nurses; and Vaccinators: Strategies for Joint Therapies. 7. Training Doctors to Integrate Ethnomedicine. 8. The Silver Bullet versus the Hexing Thorn. 9. Conclusions.