Health Care in Maya Guatemala

Author: John P. Hawkins
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0806138599
Category: Medical

Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country

When the traditional meets the modern, nowhere is the impact felt as personally as in the realm of health care. Download Health Care in Maya Guatemala medical books for free.
Because practitioners trained in Western science tend to ignore traditional medicine in developing countries, conflict is inevitable.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 of Western encroachment.The contributors first co Get Health Care in Maya Guatemala our bestseller medical books.

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