Description
Throughout Latin America, a wide range of therapies existed alongside each other. Even as governments persecuted Indigenous curanderos (healers) and parteras (midwives), some hospitals endorsed and employed them. Highlighting the contributions and experiences of Indigenous people, healers, midwives and the Sisters of Charity reveals how health care held multiple meanings and functioned in different ways for a variety of parties.
Part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.