Table of Contents

• Foreword (Bernard Ortiz de Montellano)
• Introduction (Brad R. Huber)
• Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component (Luz María Hernández Sáenz, University of Western Ontario, and George M. Foster, University of California-Berkeley)
• Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala: Its Historical Evolution from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (Carlos Viesca Treviño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico)
• Central and North Mexican Shamans (James W. Dow, Oakland University)
• A Comparative Analysis of Southern Mexican and Guatemalan Shamans (Frank J. Lipp, New York State Office of Children and Family Services)
• Mistress of Lo Espiritual (Kaja Finkler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Indigenous Midwives: From the Mexico-United States Border to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom)
• Maya Midwives of Southern Mexico and Guatemala (Sheila Cosminsky, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey)
• Relations between Government Health Workers and Traditional Midwives in Guatemala (Elena Hurtado, Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá, Guatemala) and Eugenia Sáenz de Tejada (Pan American Health Organization)
• Mesoamerican Bonesetters (Benjamin D. Paul, Stanford University) and Clancy McMahon (independent scholar, Arkansas)
• Mexican Physicians, Nurses, and Social Workers (Margaret E. Harrison, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, U.K.)
• Mesoamerican Healers and Medical Anthropology: Summary and Concluding Remarks (Alan R. Sandstrom)
• Glossary
• References Cited
• Index