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Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, James Waldram argues that Q’eqchi’ medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles.

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

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      Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9780826364449, 978-0826364449
      ISBN10: 0826364446

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, James Waldram argues that Q’eqchi’ medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles.

      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

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