Medicinas y culturas en La Araucanía
By: compilador, Luca Citarella ; autores, Luca Citarella ... [et al.].
Contributors: Citarella, Luca.
Publisher: Editorial Sudamericana
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Santiago
Language: spa
Number of pages: 616
Subjects: Mapuche Indians -- Medicine.; Mapuche Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Traditional medicine -- Chile -- Araucanía -- History.; Medicine -- Chile -- Araucanía -- History.; Araucanía (Chile) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Encyclopedic, multi-authored work comprehensively relates the history and current forms of Mapuche curing practices, ethnoclassifications of illness and herbal cures, and training of medical specialists. Juxtaposed is a similarly detailed study of popular medicine and another concerning the history of western medicine in Chile. The articulation among the three medical systems is analyzed from sociological, juridical, and cultural standpoints, proposing practical solutions to health planners"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Trafkin; Programa de Atención Primaria en Salud, Cooperación Italiana."