Health Care in Maya Guatemala

Health Care in Maya Guatemala
Author: John Palmer Hawkins
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780806138596


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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.