Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Curers and their cures in colonial new Spain and Guatemala / by Luz María Hernández Sáenz and George M. Foster
  • Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala / by Carlos Viesca Treviño
  • Central and North Mexican Shamans / by James W. Dow
  • A comparative analysis of Southern Mexican and Guatemalan Shamans / by Frank J. Lipp
  • Mistress of lo espiritual / by Kaja Finkler
  • Recruitment, training and practice of indigenous midwives / by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom
  • Maya midwives of Southern Mexico and Guatemala / by Sheila Cosminsky
  • Relations between government health workers and traditional midwives in Guatemala / by Elena Hurtado and Eugenia Sáenz de Tejada
  • Mesoamerican bonesetters / by Benjamin D. Paul and Clancy McMahon
  • Mexican physicians, nurses and social workers / by Margaret E. Harrison
  • Mesoamerican healers and medical anthropology / by Alan R. Sandstrom.