Mesoamerican healers / edited by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom.

Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2001.

xiii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

1st ed.

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.

Includes index and bibliography: p. 335-383.