From the Bush The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village

Name: From the Bush The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village
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ISBN: 9780155085671

ISBN-10: 0155085670

ISBN-13: 9780155085671

Edition: 2004

Authors: Marsha B. Quinlan, Marsha B. Quinlan

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This case study will be the first to deal with a topic in medical anthropology. It explores the world of folk medicine in the Caribbean (Dominica) ? local beliefs and practices concerning how the body functions and malfunctions and the home remedies Dominicans use to cure common illnesses. The case study goes beyond discussing the exotic medical system of a developing country (which includes sorcery and folk-illnesses) to discuss how folk medicine flourishes in industrialized countries in a way that is little different than that practiced in Dominica. The theme is that cultural ideas about the body and uses of medicinal plants are deeply intertwined. Ideas about illness direct the…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 2/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.25" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Marsha Quinlan is a broadly-experienced medical anthropologist with expertise in cultural notions of disease and healing and medical botany. Quinlan has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and teaches anthropology at Washington State University. She has conducted research with residents of this Dominican community since 1993.



List of Figures and Tables


Foreword


Preface



The Importance of Home Remedies


Ethnomedicine


Why Use Ethnomedicine to Study Ethnobotany?


From the Bush



Dominica and Dominicans


The Island


The Physical Environment


Ethnohistory of Dominican People


Language in Dominica: Commingling Creoles


Island Socioeconomics


Conclusion



Bwa Mawego


The Village Site


Population


Residences


Physical Appearance of Bwa Mawegans


Earning a Living in Bwa Mawego


Village Family Life


An Abbreviated Daily Round



Methods


Rapport: The First Concern


Membership in a Research Team


Stage I Research: Fundamental Exploration


Stage II Research: Systematic Exploration


Freelist of Remedies



Disease and Illness in Bwa Mawego


The Disease-Illness Dichotomy


Diseases in Bwa Mawego


Illnesses in Bwa Mawego



Bwa Mawego's Sectors of Health Care


Bwa Mawego's Popular Sector: Bush Medicine


The Professional Sector: Biomedicine


The Folk Sector


Path of Treatment Seeking


Popular Treatment and Acculturation



Body Image in Bwa Mawego


Hot and Cold


Rural Dominican Humoral System


The Body's Basic Requirements


Rural Dominican Ethnophysiology


Summary



Bush Medicine in Bwa Mawego: Illnesses and Their Treatments


The Illnesses


Illness Domains


Cold Illnesses and Their Treatments


Hot Illnesses and Their Treatments


Buttons and Prickle Heat


External Conditions and Their Treatments


Stomach Conditions and Their Treatments



Applications and Conclusions


Professional Biomedical Care


Folk Healing


Bush Medicine


Appendix A


Appendix B


Appendix C


Glossary


Bibliography


Index