Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power: 3 (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 3) - Softcover

Book 2 of 7: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology

Brodwin, Paul

 
9780521575430: Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power: 3 (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 3)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521575435 ISBN 13: 9780521575430
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

A study of how medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medical practices.

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Review

"This book enlarges our interpretive framework for understanding the symbolic dimensions of therapeutic choice. It provides an important perspective on religion and healing in Haiti in a powerful way few other works have achieved." Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Book Description

Medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by different local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medical practices. People who become ill may seek treatment from Western doctors but also from herbalists and religious healers. This study examines the logic behind these choices, and the moral issues where suffering is associated with guilt, but where different, sometimes conflicting, ethical systems coexist.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521575435
ISBN 13 
9780521575430
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256

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9780521570299: Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 3)

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