Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521575430)

Medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by different local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medicine practices. People who become ill may seek treatment from Western doctors, but also from herbalists and religious leaders. This study examines the decisions guiding such choices, and considers moral issues arising in a society where suffering is associated with guilt but where different, sometimes conflicting, ethical systems coexist. It also reveals how in the crisis of illness people rework religious identities and are forced to address fundamental social and political problems.

Author: Paul Brodwin
ISBN-10: 0521575435
ISBN-13: 9780521575430
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1996
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.68d