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Drum and stethoscope : integrating ethnomedicine and biomedicine in Bolivia / Joseph W. Bastien.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1992.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585131910
  • 9780585131917
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drum and stethoscope.DDC classification:
  • 362.1/042/0984 20
LOC classification:
  • RA461 .B37 1992eb
NLM classification:
  • WB 50 DB6
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 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 / Joseph W. Bastien and Henri Migala -- pt. II. Herbalists and Shamans: Opposition and Adaptation to Biomedicine. 3. Adaptive Strategies of Bolivian Herbalists to Biomedicine. 4. Shamans under Siege: Psychosocial Therapy -- pt. 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 / Joseph W. Bastien and Nancy Edens -- pt. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index.

pt. 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 / Joseph W. Bastien and Henri Migala -- pt. II. Herbalists and Shamans: Opposition and Adaptation to Biomedicine. 3. Adaptive Strategies of Bolivian Herbalists to Biomedicine. 4. Shamans under Siege: Psychosocial Therapy -- pt. 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 / Joseph W. Bastien and Nancy Edens -- pt. 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.

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