ISBN:
9780520344785
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9780520344792
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Carey, David Health in the highlands
DDC:
362.109728105/2
Keywords:
Traditional medicine History 20th century
;
Traditional medicine History 20th century
;
Medical care History 20th century
;
Medical care History 20th century
;
Amerikanische Geschichte
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Ethnic Studies
;
HISTORY / Latin America / General
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HISTORY / Native American
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History
;
Indigene Völker
;
POL073000
;
SOC008050
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Amerika
;
Karibik
;
Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika
Abstract:
"In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within their countries, with the goals of addressing endemic diseases and improving infant and maternal health. These efforts often clashed with indigenous medical practices, particularly in the rural highlands. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, historian David Carey Jr. shows that indigenous populations embraced a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, the governments of both nations encouraged--or at least allowed--such a synthesis, yet they also attacked indigenous lifeways, going so far as to criminalize native medical practitioners and to conduct medical experiments on indigenous people without consent. Health in the Highlands traces the experiences of curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, and nurses--and the indigenous people they served. Carey interrogates the relationship between 'progressive' public health policy and indigenous well-being, offering lessons from the past that remain relevant in the present. Our best way forward, this history suggests, may be a compassionate syncretism that joins indigenous approaches to healing with science and a pursuit of environmental and social justice"--
Abstract:
Populated by curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates how cultural and political history, misogyny, racism, and racialization influence public health. In the first half of the twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to spread scientific medicine to their populaces, working to prevent and treat malaria, typhus, and typhoid; to boost infant and maternal well-being; and to improve overall health. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, David Carey Jr. shows that highland indigenous populations in the two countries tended to embrace a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, both governments encouraged-or at least allowed-such a synthesis: even what they saw as "nonscientific" care was better than none. Yet both, especially Guatemala's, also wrote off indigenous lifeways and practices with both explicit and implicit racism, going so far as to criminalize native medical providers and to experiment on indigenous people without their consent. Both nations had authoritarian rule, but Guatemala's was outright dictatorial, tending to treat both women and indigenous people as subjects to be controlled and policed. Ecuador, on the other hand, advanced a more pluralistic vision of national unity, and had somewhat better outcomes as a result
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword / Jeremy A. Greene -- Introduction : disease, healing, and medicine in indigenous highlands -- Hookworm, histories, and health : indigenous healing, state building, and Rockefeller representatives -- Curses and cures : empíricos, indigeneity, and scientific medicine -- Engendering infant mortality and public health : midwifery, obstetrics, and ethnicity -- "Malnourished, scrawny, emaciated Indios" : perceptions of indigeneity, illness, and healing -- Infectious indígenas : the ethnicity of highland diseases -- "Prisoners of malaria" : a lowland disease in the mountains -- Conclusion : indigeneity, racist thought, and modern medicine.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: 5PBA, Bezug zu indigenen Völkern
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