Health care in Maya Guatemala : confronting medical pluralism in a developing country / Walter Randolph Adams, John P. Hawkins.

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2007], ©2007.

xvii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.

Introduction: the continuing disjunction between traditional and Western medical beliefs and practices in Guatemala / Walter Randolph Adams, John P. Hawkins -- "Someone is making you sick": conceptions of disease in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán / Jason Harris -- "No one wants to become a healer": herbal medicine and ethnobotanical knowledge in Nahualá / Jolene Yukes -- "If we do not eat milpa, we die": the cultural basis of health in Nahualá / Steven Shem Rode -- "The solution is prevention": the national rural health care system in Nahualá / Michael Duncan Jones -- "The sickness was too strong": medical choice in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán / Jennifer Leyn -- "Your destiny is to care for pregnant women": midwives and childbirth in Nahualá / Kevara Ellsworth Wilson -- "Tortillas give us strength": an assessment of eating in Nueva Ixtahuacán / Deborah L. Lee -- "Wild greens every day, that is all we ate": malnutrition and development in Nahualá / Bronwyn M. Sinclair -- "If my tooth hurts, I pull it out": oral health in Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán / Jared T. Lee -- Sadness in the highlands: a study of depression in Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán / Emily R. Sullivan -- Conclusion: good medicine: steps toward a Maya-accessible health care system / John P. Hawkins, Walter Randolph Adams.