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From the bush : the front line of health care in a Caribbean village / Marsha B. Quinlan.

Title
  1. From the bush : the front line of health care in a Caribbean village / Marsha B. Quinlan.
Published by
  1. Southbank, Victoria, Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004.
Author
  1. Quinlan, Marsha B., 1964-

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Description
  1. xv, 152 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. Case studies in cultural anthropology
Uniform title
  1. Case studies in cultural anthropology.
Alternative title
  1. Front line of health care in a Caribbean village
Subject
  1. Botany, Medical > Dominica
  2. Dominica > ethnology
  3. Ethnobotany > methods
  4. Health Services, Indigenous > organization & administration
  5. Materia medica, Animal > Dominica
  6. Materia medica, Vegetable > Dominica
  7. Medical anthropology > Dominica
  8. Medicine, Traditional
  9. Phytotherapy > methods
  10. Plants, Medicinal
  11. Traditional medicine > Dominica
Contents
  1. Importance of home remedies -- Dominica and Dominicans -- Bwa Mawego -- Methods -- Disease and illness in Bwa Mawego -- Bwa Mawego's sectors of health care -- Body image in Bwa Mawego -- Bush medicine in Bwa Mawego: illnesses and their treatments -- Applications and conclusions -- Glossary.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-148) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain