Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVIII I
2. SECTION ONE: Native Cultural Aspects of Healing
3. Introduction 3
4. Witchcraft, the Shaman, and Active Pharmacopoeia 5
5. The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice 11
6. Body and Spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil 27
7. Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes 49
8. Social Basis of Illness: A Search for Therapeutic Meaning 67
9. Snakebite Cure among the Rama Indians of Nicaragua 81
10. The Traditional Folk Medicine of Taos, New Mexico 103
11. Different Approaches to Medicine among Different People 105
12. Post-Partum Salt Packing and Other Medical Practices: Oman, South Arabia 109
13. SECTION TWO: Specific Subject Papers
14. Introduction 115
15. The Incidence of Mental Illness among Italians in an English-Canadian City 117
16. Warning: The Milk in This Package May Be Lethal for Your Infant 129
17. Prehistoric Pictography in North America of Medical Significance 137
18. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Midwifery 229
19. Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? 249
20. The Use of Argillaceous Earth as Medicament 269
21. SECTION THREE: Interaction of Traditional and Western Medical Practices
22. Introduction 281
23. Human Factors in the Regulation of Parasitic Infections: Cultural Ecology of Hookworm Populations in Rural West Bengal 287
24. Analysis of Incidence of Excessive Alcohol Intake by the Indian Population in Montana 313
25. Witchcraft: An Allegory? 321
26. The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town 331
27. Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease 383
28. Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru 393
29. A Transubstantiated Health Clinic in Nepal: A Model for the Future 403
30. Traditional African Medicine 413
31. SECTION FOUR: Theoretical Aspects of Medical Anthropology
32. Introduction 421
33. Medical Anthropology: Mirror for Medicine 423
34. Emics and Etics of Health Problems in Ethiopia 429
35. Sociocultural Barriers to Technological Change: An Anthropological Approach 437
36. Reflections 441
37. SECTION FIVE: Vox Populorum: Congress Commentaries
38. Vox Populorum: Congress Commentaries 447
39. Post Scriptum 459
40. Biographical Notes 461
41. Index of Names 471
42. Index of Subjects 479