Maya Medicine
Author: Marianna Appel Kunow
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0826328652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginal publication and copyright date: 2003.
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Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya
Author: Aurora Garcia Saqui
Publisher: Produccicones de La Hamaca
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789768142863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIx Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya: Maya Herbal Medicine is written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, a well-known natural healer in Belize. She was trained by her grand-uncle, the famous Don Eligio Panti in traditional Maya medicine. A Yucatec Maya who grew up in rural Belize, she is adamant about practicing and conserving her Maya culture, which is reflected in her descriptions of Maya remedies for illnesses and complaints. Included are photos and descriptions of all the plants used in this book of Maya traditional healing.
Wind in the Blood
Author: Hernan Garcia
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 1999-10-22
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1556433042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, and Hiberto Balam discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and traditional Chinese medcine were profound and helpful in their medical work.
Health Care in Maya Guatemala
Author: John Palmer Hawkins
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780806138596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.
Doing Harm
Author: Maya Dusenbery
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780062470805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEditor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, systemic problems that underlie women’s experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system. Women have been discharged from the emergency room mid-heart attack with a prescription for anti-anxiety meds, while others with autoimmune diseases have been labeled “chronic complainers” for years before being properly diagnosed. Women with endometriosis have been told they are just overreacting to “normal” menstrual cramps, while still others have “contested” illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia that, dogged by psychosomatic suspicions, have yet to be fully accepted as “real” diseases by the whole of the profession. An eye-opening read for patients and health care providers alike, Doing Harm shows how women suffer because the medical community knows relatively less about their diseases and bodies and too often doesn’t trust their reports of their symptoms. The research community has neglected conditions that disproportionately affect women and paid little attention to biological differences between the sexes in everything from drug metabolism to the disease factors—even the symptoms of a heart attack. Meanwhile, a long history of viewing women as especially prone to “hysteria” reverberates to the present day, leaving women battling against a stereotype that they’re hypochondriacs whose ailments are likely to be “all in their heads.” Offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its sometimes catastrophic consequences, Doing Harm is a rallying wake-up call that will change the way we look at health care for women.
Maya Medicine
Author: Francisco Guerra
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
Author: Elois Ann Berlin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 140087288X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking peoples, the Tzeltal and Tzotzil, reveal that they have developed a large number of herbal remedies based on a highly sophisticated understanding of the physiology and symptomatology of common diseases and on an in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants. Here Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin, along with their many collaborators, provide detailed information on Maya disease classification, symptomatology, and treatment of the most significant health conditions affecting the Highland Maya, the gastrointestinal diseases. The authors base their work on broad-ranging comparative ethno-medical and ethnobotanical data collected over seven years of original field research. In describing the Mayas' understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, Berlin and Berlin show that the plants used as remedies are condition specific.> Moreover, laboratory studies demonstrate that the most commonly agreed upon herbal remedies are potentially effective against the pathogenic agents underlying specific diseases and that they strongly affect the physiological processes associated with intestinal peristalsis. These findings suggest that the traditional Maya medical system is the result of long-term explicit empirical experimentation with the effects of herbal remedies on bodily function. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Women's Power to Heal
Author: Maya Tiwari
Publisher: Maya Tiwari
Published: 2012-07-16
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0979327911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen have absolute power within themselves to heal. A living testament to the healing efficacy of her teachings, the author freed herself from "terminal" ovarian cancer at the age of 23. More than 25 years later--having been recognized by the Parliament of the World's Religions for her outstanding contribution to humanity--she shares the healing wisdom that literally saved her life.
An Imperative to Cure
Author: James B. Waldram
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2020-11-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0826361749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames B. Waldram’s groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of “medicine” instead of “healing.” Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q’eqchi’ medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles. Not content to leave the elements of Q’eqchi’ cosmovision to the realm of the imaginary and beyond human reach, Q’eqchi’ practitioners conceptualize the world as essentially material and meta/material, consisting of complex but knowable forces that impact health and well-being in real and meaningful ways—forces with which Q’eqchi’ practitioners must engage to cure their patients.
Sastun
Author: Rosita Arvigo
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0062345478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.
