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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-standing Medical Practices Erode In The Face Western Encroachment. The Contributors First Consider Cultural, Institutional, And Behavioral Aspects Of Health Care In Guatemala. Then They Look Closely At The Nature And Treatment Of Specific Health Issues, Such As Dentistry And Mental Health - Especially Depression. Finally, They Provide New Insight On Midwifery, Nutrition, Ethnomedicine, And Other Topics.--jacket. Introduction: The Continuing Disjunction Between Traditional And Western Medical Beliefs And Practices In Guatemala / Walter Randolph Adams, John P. Hawkins -- Someone Is Making You Sick: Conceptions Of Disease In Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán / Jason Harris -- No One Wants To Become A Healer: Herbal Medicine And Ethnobotanical Knowledge In Nahualá / Jolene Yukes -- If We Do No

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Author

Walter Randolph Adams, John Palmer Hawkins

Publisher

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806138596

Category

history

Subjects

Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14