Doctors of two worlds
Type
Label
Doctors of two worlds
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Doctors of two worlds
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
849668416
Runtime
54
Series statement
Ethnographic video online, volume 2
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
Target audience
general
Genre
Subject
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