Author: John Palmer Hawkins
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138596
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.