Medical Pluralism in the Andes

ISBN-13: 9780415299206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str.

Koss-Chioino; Joan D. Koss-Chioino; Thomas Leatherman

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This volume is a collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamud's pioneering work on Andean medicine, this illustrated title reflects the diversity of approaches in medical anthropology that have evolved since the 1980s. The 13 essays from leading experts cover subject areas including gender, ethnicity and health, folk illnesses and remedies, nutrition, alternative therapies and healers, and the influence of superstition on local medicine. Almost all previously unpublished, and reliant on extensive individual fieldwork, they offer a detailed and rounded explanation of the multiple issues affecting the health of local populations in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.

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Foreword June Nash List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Andean Medical Studies and the Contribution of Libbet Crandon-Malamud 1. The Andean Context Ann Miles and Tom Leatherman 2. Ethnography and the Person: A Reflection on Libbet Crandon's Andean Fieldwork Joan Koss-Chiono 3. Changing Times, Changing Symptoms: The Effects of Modernization on Mestizo Medicine in Rural Bolivia Libbet Crandon 4. Contributions to a Critical Analysis of Medical Pluralism: An Examination of the Work of Libbet Crandon-Malamud Hans Baer Section One: Choices, Changing Times and Medical Pluralism Introduction 5. Setting it Straight in the Andes: Musculoskeletal Distress and the Role of the Componedor Kathryn Oths 6. Healing Soul Loss: The Negotiation of Identity in Peru Christine Greenway 7. Healers as Entrepreneurs: Constructing an Image of Legitimized Potency in Urban Ecuador Ann Miles Section Two: Andean Bodies - Metaphors and Medicine Introduction 8. Ethnomedicine and Enculturation in the Andes of Ecuador Lauris McKee 9. Food, Health and Identity in a Rural Andean Community Margaret Graham 10. Sucking Blood or Snatching Fat: Chaga's Disease in Bolivia Joseph Bastien Section Three: Gender, Power and Health Introduction 11. Why Sobreparto?: Women's Health, Work and Reproduction in Two Districts of Southern Peru Ann Larme and Tom Leatherman 12. Illness Management, Social Alliance and Cultural Identity in Quito Ecuador Laurie Price 13. Anthropology and Shamanism: Image and Practice in Peru Bonnie Glass-Coffin

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Joan Koss-Chioino is Professor of Anthropology and affiliate of the Women's Studies Department at Arizona State University. She is also Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, Research Professor of Psychology at George Washington University, and author of Women as Healers, Women as Patients (1992) and Working with Latino Youth (1999). Thomas Leatherman is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Christine Greenway is affiliated with the University of Washington.