Drum and stethoscope: integrating ethnomedicine and biomedicine in Bolivia
by Joseph William Bastien
University of Utah Press, 1992
Cloth: 978-0-87480-386-0
Library of Congress Classification RA461.B37 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.10420984
TOC
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART I.
- Articulation of Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine: Objectives, Problems, and Strategies
- 1.
- Biomedical Centrism: Deficiencies of Biomedicine in Primary Health Care
- 2.
- Quack Doctors, Superstition, and Witchcraft (with Henri Migala)
- PART II.
- Herbalists and Shamans: Opposition and Adaptation to Biomedicine
- 3.
- Adaptive Strategies of Bolivian Herbalists to Biomedicine
- 4.
- Shamans under Siege: Psychosocial Therapy
- PART III.
- Mediators between Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine: Community Health Workers and Midwives
- 5.
- Community Health Workers: Bridging the Gap between Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine
- 6.
- Midwives and Maternal and Infant Health Care (with Nancy Edens)
- PART IV.
- Doctors, Nurses, and Vaccinators: Strategies for Joint Therapies
- 7.
- Training Doctors to Integrate Ethnomedicine
- 8.
- The Silver Bullet versus the Hexing Thorn
- 9.
- Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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