Patients, Doctors and Healers

Patients, Doctors and Healers

Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile

Kristensen, Dorthe Brogard

Springer International Publishing AG

01/2019

228

Dura

Inglês

9783319970301

15 a 20 dias

545


ebook

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1. Illness Stories, Medical Choices and Socio-Political Process.- 2. The History, Culture and Politics of Chile.- 3. Complex Illnesses and Complementary Cures.- 4. Indigenous Disease Categories, Medical Dialogues and Social Positions.- 5. Being Mapuche in Modern Chile: Illness Experiences, Medical Choices and Social Positions.- 6. Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine.- 7. The Shaman, the Virgin and the Taxation Authorities.- 8. Conclusion: The Control of Medicine, the Control of Bodies.
machi;Mapuche practitioners;shamanic;healing;healing rituals;indigenous;South America;medical pluralism;medical anthropology;Mapuche politics;organic pathology;Mapuche-illnesses;Augusto Pinochet;trauma;olvido;area studies