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Medical Pluralism in the Andes
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Medical Pluralism in the Andes, Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamuds pioneering work on Andean medicine, this readable, extensively , Medical Pluralism in the Andes
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  • Medical Pluralism in the Andes
  • Written by author Christine Greenway
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, 8/21/2012
  • Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamuds pioneering work on Andean medicine, this readable, extensively
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Pt. I Introduction: Andean medical studies and the contribution of Libbet Crandon-Malamud 1
1 Perspectives on medical anthropology in the Andes 3
2 Ethnography and the person: reflections on Libbet Crandon's fieldwork in Bolivia 16
3 Changing times and changing symptoms: the effects of modernization on mestizo medicine in rural Bolivia (the case of two mestizo sisters) 27
4 Contribution to a critical analysis of medical pluralism: an examination of the work of Libbet Crandon-Malamud 42
Pt. II Choices, changing times, and medical pluralism 61
5 Setting it straight in the Andes: musculoskeletal distress and the role of the componedor 63
6 Healing soul loss: the negotiation of identity in Peru 92
7 Healers as entrepreneurs: constructing an image of legitimized potency in urban Ecuador 107
Pt. III Andean bodies: metaphors and medicine 129
8 Ethnomedicine and enculturation in the Andes of Ecuador 131
9 Food, health, and identity in a rural Andean community 148
10 Sucking blood or snatching fat: Chagas' disease in Bolivia 166
Pt. IV Gender, power, and health 189
11 Why sobreparto?: women's work, health, and reproduction in two districts in southern Peru 191
12 Illness management, social alliance, and cultural identity in Quito, Ecuador 209
13 Anthropology and Shamanism: bottom-line considerations in image and practice 234
Index 251


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