Medical Pluralism in the Andes

by Koss-Chioino,Joan D.

• ISBN13: 9780415299183
• ISBN10: 0415299187
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Medical Pluralism in the Andesis the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Capturing the intricacies of health practice within the context of Andean social history, cultural tradition, community and folklore, this is a remarkable and intimate chronicle of Andean culture and everyday life, which will appeal across a wide range of readers, from professional anthropologists to those interested in alternative medicines.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
List of contributors	xi
Foreword	xv
Preface	xvii
PART I Introduction: Andean medical studies and the contribution of Libbet Crandon-Malamud	1	(60)
Perspectives on medical anthropology in the Andes	3	(13)
Ann Miles
Thomas Leatherman
Ethnography and the person: reflections on Libbet Crandon's fieldwork in Bolivia	16	(11)
Joan D. Koss-Chioino
Changing times and changing symptoms: the effects of modernization on mestizo medicine in rural Bolivia (the case of two mestizo sisters)	27	(15)
Libbet Crandon
Contributions to a critical analysis of medical pluralism: an examination of the work of Libbet Crandon-Malamud	42	(19)
Hans A. Baer
PART II Choices, changing times, and medical pluralism	61	(68)
Setting it straight in the Andes: musculoskeletal distress and the role of the componedor	63	(29)
Kathryn S. Oths
Healing soul loss: the negotiation of identity in Peru	92	(15)
Christine Greenway
Healers as entrepreneurs: constructing an image of legitimized potency in urban Ecuador	107	(22)
Ann Miles
PART III Andean bodies: metaphors and medicine	129	(60)
Ethnomedicine and enculturation in the Andes of Ecuador	131	(17)
Lauris A. Mckee
Food, health, and identity in a rural Andean community	148	(18)
Margaret A. Graham
Sucking blood or snatching fat: Chagas' disease in Bolivia	166	(23)
Joseph William Bastien
PART IV Gender, power, and health	189	(62)
Why sobreparto?: women's work, health, and reproduction in two districts in southern Peru	191	(18)
Anne C. Larme
Thomas Leatherman
Illness management, social alliance, and cultural identity in Quito, Ecuador	209	(25)
Laurie J. Price
Anthropology and Shamanism: bottom-line considerations in image and practice	234	(17)
Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Index	251