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Book Cover
Streaming video

Title Doctors of two worlds
Published London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (54 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Summary 880-01 In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted with and tries to learn the methods of the local curandero's methods of healing. The film is a highly revealing document of the encounter of different approaches to illness and is particularly suited for the teaching of Medical Anthropology
880-01/(N In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted with and tries to learn the methods of the local curanderођ́ةs methods of healing. The film is a highly revealing document of the encounter of different approaches to illness and is particularly suited for the teaching of Medical Anthropology
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 23, 2013)
This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles
Subject Healers -- Bolivia
Medical care -- Bolivia
Traditional medicine -- Bolivia
Physicians -- Bolivia
Healers.
Manners and customs.
Medical care.
Physicians.
Traditional medicine.
SUBJECT Bolivia -- Social life and customs
Subject Bolivia.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Solomons, Natasha
Solomons, Richard
Wijk, Yoke van