From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) - Softcover
This case study will be the first to deal with a topic in medical anthropology. It explores the world of folk medicine in the Caribbean (Dominica) – local beliefs and practices concerning how the body functions and malfunctions and the home remedies Dominicans use to cure common illnesses. The case study goes beyond discussing the exotic medical system of a developing country (which includes sorcery and folk-illnesses) to discuss how folk medicine flourishes in industrialized countries in a way that is little different than that practiced in Dominica. The theme is that cultural ideas about the body and uses of medicinal plants are deeply intertwined. Ideas about illness direct the consequent medical response. The book's topic is important because knowledge of local ethnomedical practice is essential for development of public health interventions in non-Western settings. This realist ethnography is aimed at any member of the generally educated population.
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"Marsha Quinlan is a broadly-trained medical anthropologist. Her areas of concentration include medical ethnobotany, health behavior in families, and maternal and child health. Quinlan has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a contract Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Ball State University. She has been in contact with the residents of the study site since 1993."
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Marsha Quinlan is a broadly-experienced medical anthropologist with expertise in cultural notions of disease and healing and medical botany. Quinlan has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and teaches anthropology at Washington State University. She has conducted research with residents of this Dominican community since 1993.
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- Publication date2003
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