Medical Pluralism in the Andes (Theory & Practice in Medical Anthropology)

by Christine Greenway (Editor), JoanD.Koss-Chioino (Editor), ThomasLeatherman (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $161.42

  This volume is a collection of anthropological approaches to health in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia since the 1980s. Subject areas include: gender, ethnicity and health, folk illnesses and remedies, nutrition, alternative therapies and healers, and the influence of superstition on local medicine.