Doctors of Two Worlds

Synopsis: In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted with and tries to learn the local curandero’s methods of healing. The film is a highly revealing document of the encounter of different approaches to illness.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.
Year of production: 1989
Availability: Sale (RAI); 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Uses: Particularly suited for the teaching of medical anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology; Medical sciences
Keywords: Bolivia; complementary medicine; health care; medical treatments

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Notes: The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.

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