Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing (de Vries Lectures

Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing (de Vries Lectures in Economics)

The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers).
Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practiced but also how it is learned and passed on as a healing tradition. By providing a better understanding of why curanderos continue to be in demand despite the lifesaving capabilities of modern medicine, this text will serve as an indispensable resource to health professionals who work within Mexican American communities, to students of transcultural medicine, and to urban ethnologists and medical anthropologists.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of Georgia Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 1997-11-01
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780820340715

Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing (de Vries Lectures in Economics)