Health in the highlands : indigenous healing and scientific medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador / David Carey Jr. ; foreword by Jeremy A. Greene.
Carey, David, Jr., 1967- author.; Greene, Jeremy A., 1974- writer of foreword.; ProQuest (Firm)
2023
GR880 .C37 2023
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Title Health in the highlands : indigenous healing and scientific medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador / David Carey Jr. ; foreword by Jeremy A. Greene.
Author Carey, David, Jr., 1967- author.
ISBN 9780520975682
0520975685
9780520344785
9780520344792
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number GR880 .C37 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.109728105/2
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Added Author Greene, Jeremy A., 1974- writer of foreword.
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Foreword / Jeremy A. Greene
Introduction : disease, healing, and medicine in indigenous highlands
Hookworm, histories, and health : indigenous healing, state building, and Rockefeller representatives
Curses and cures : empíricos, indigeneity, and scientific medicine
Engendering infant mortality and public health : midwifery, obstetrics, and ethnicity
"Malnourished, scrawny, emaciated Indios" : perceptions of indigeneity, illness, and healing
Infectious indígenas : the ethnicity of highland diseases
"Prisoners of malaria" : a lowland disease in the mountains
Conclusion : indigeneity, racist thought, and modern medicine.

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