Crandon-Malamud, L: From the Fat of Our Souls - Social Chang

Name: Crandon-Malamud, L: From the Fat of Our Souls - Social Chang
Brand: University of California Press
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By Libbet Crandon-Malamud

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"From the Fat of Our Souls" offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and Protestants, peasants and professionals in the rural town of Kachitu, Libbet Crandon-Malamud finds that medical choice is based not on medical efficacy but on political concerns. Through the primary resource of medicine, people have access to secondary resources, the principal one being social mobility. This investigation of medical pluralism is also a history of class formation and the fluidity of both medical theory and social identity in highland Bolivia, and it is told through the often heartrending, often hilarious stories of the people who live there.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 288
Release Date:: 1993-12-17
Publication Date:: 1993-12-17
Publisher:: University of California Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0520084306
ISBN13:: 9780520084308
Weight:: 367 g
Height:: 153 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 19 cm

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