An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize

by James B. Waldram

Overview

James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of medicine instead of healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826361738
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	11/01/2020
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James B. Waldram is a professor of medical and applied anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention and Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Ten-Minute Break

Chapter One. Empiricism, Materialism, and Indigenous Medicine
Chapter Two. Maya Medicine, Medical Ethnography, and the Research Context
Chapter Three. General Principles of Q'eqchi' Medicine
Chapter Four. Sickness and Nosology
Chapter Five. The Diagnostic Process
Chapter Six. The Clinical Context of Treatment
Chapter Seven. Principle and Practice in Q'eqchi' Medicine

Afterword 2020
Glossary
Notes
References Cited
Index

Editorial Reviews

(An Imperative to Cure) is a book rich in detail and analysis that provides a comprehensive description of these Maya practitioners' medical work and world view.—Choice

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