Medicine and Morality in Haiti by Paul Brodwin
Morality and medicine are inextricably intertwined in rural Haiti, and both are shaped by the different local religious traditions, Christian and Vodoun, as well as by biomedical and folk medical practices. When people fall ill, they seek treatment not only from Western doctors but also from herbalists, religious healers and midwives. Dr Brodwin examines the situational logic, the pragmatic decisions, that guide people in making choices when they are faced with illness. He also explains the moral issues that arise in a society where suffering is associated with guilt, but where different, sometimes conflicting, ethical systems coexist. Moreover, he shows how in the crisis of illness people rework religious identities and are forced to address fundamental social and political problems.
Paul Brodwin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the editor of Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics, author of Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power, and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience: Anthropological Perspectives.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521575430 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521575435 |
| Title | Medicine and Morality in Haiti |
| Author | Paul Brodwin |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medical Anthropology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1996-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
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