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    4. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Brodwin,Paul E. (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1996
    Published:
    New York: Cambridge University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    240 p, Contents: 1. The dialectics of healing power -- 2. Metropolitan medicine and strategies of rule -- 3. Biomedicine in Jeanty -- 4. Medicalization and illness experience: two case-studies -- 5. The Catholic practice of healing -- 6. Houngan and the limits of Catholic morality -- 7. Religious healing and the fragmentation of rural life -- 8. Conclusion