Health Care in Maya Guatemala

by Adams, Walter Randolph

• ISBN13: 9780806138596
• ISBN10: 0806138599
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Creating more enlightened health care for traditional cultures

Author Biography

Walter Randolph Adams is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah John P. Hawkins is Professor of Anthropology at Brigham Young University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: The Continuing Disjunction between Traditional and Western Medical Beliefs and Practices in Guatemala	p. 3
The Health Care System in Guatemala: Cultural, Institutional, and Behavioral Perspectives
"Someone Is Making You Sick": Conceptions of Disease in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan	p. 27
"No One Wants to Become a Healer": Herbal Medicine and Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Nahuala	p. 44
"If We Do Not Eat Milpa, We Die": The Cultural Basis of Health in Nahuala	p. 69
"The Solution Is Prevention": The National Rural Health Care System in Nahuala	p. 86
"The Sickness Was Too Strong": Medical Choice in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan	p. 100
The Nature and Treatment of Specific Conditions
"Your Destiny Is to Care for Pregnant Women": Midwives and Childbirth in Nahuala	p. 125
"Tortillas Give Us Strength": An Assessment of Eating in Nueva Ixtahuacan	p. 148
"Wild Greens Every Day, That Is All We Ate": Malnutrition and Development in Nahuala	p. 166
"If My Tooth Hurts, I Pull It Out": Oral Health in Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan	p. 179
Sadness in the Highlands: A Study of Depression in Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan	p. 194
Conclusion: Good Medicine: Steps Toward a Maya-Accessible Health Care System	p. 215
Glossary	p. 237
References Cited	p. 241
Undergraduate Student Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 263
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