From the Fat of Our Souls: Social Change, Political Process, and Medical Pluralism in Bolivia

From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and Protestants, peasants and professionals in the rural town of Kachitu, Libbet Crandon—Malamud finds that medical choice is based not on medical efficacy but on political concerns. Through the prim...