Patients, Doctors and Healers Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile /

• Main Author: Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Medical anthropology.; Ethnology.; Area studies.; Complementary medicine.; Spirituality.; Phenomenology .; Medical Anthropology.; Social Anthropology.; Area Studies.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.; Phenomenology.

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism, Kriste...