Medicinas y culturas en La Araucanía

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"Encyclopedic, multi-authored work comprehensively relates the history and current forms of Mapuche curing practices, ethnoclassifications of illness and herbal cures, and training of medical specialists. Juxtaposed is a similarly detailed study of popular medicine and another concerning the history of western medicine in Chile. The articulation among the three medical systems is analyzed from sociological, juridical, and cultural standpoints, proposing practical solutions to health planners"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.