Doctors of two worlds.

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Solomons, Natasha, Solomons, Richard, Wijk, Yoke van
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles.
Published:	London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1989.
Series:	Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Subjects:	Healers > Bolivia. Medical care > Bolivia. Traditional medicine > Bolivia. Physicians > Bolivia. Bolivia > Social life and customs. Guérisseurs > Bolivie. Médecins > Bolivie. Healers. Manners and customs. Medical care. Physicians. Traditional medicine. Bolivia. Online media. Nonfiction films. Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 23, 2013).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (54 min.).
Playing Time:	00:54:00