Women as Healers, Women as Patients: Mental Health Care and Traditional Healing in Puerto Rico

by Joan D. Koss-Chioino

The ways in which symptoms and causes of women's emotional distress and psychiatric illnesses are perceived and treated by both biomedical practitioners and folk healers in Puerto Rico lie at the heart of this book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813383218
• ISBN13: 9780813383217
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 237 Pages