The Gift of Healing
Author: Chavira, Juan Antonio
Date Published: 1975
This monograph is part of Proyecto Comprender, a project developed to document the practices of Mexican American folk healers. This study examines the Mexican American folk health care system, curanderismo. The goal of the project was, and is, to lessen cultural barriers to the delivery of health care to Mexican American patients by providing the health care professional with information that may help him understand events occurring in the lives of some of their patients This educational package is designed to promote awareness of culturally relevant symbols and forms of communication that are used by curanderos in the hope that knowledge of these patterns of behavior can be useful to health professionals in their treatment of some of their Mexican American patients. The goal of the complete educational package is the sensitization of health practitioners to culturally relevant cues in the delivery of health care and, ultimately, the lowering of cultural barriers to good health.
Date Published: 1975
This monograph is part of Proyecto Comprender, a project developed to document the practices of Mexican American folk healers. This study examines the Mexican American folk health care system, curanderismo. The goal of the project was, and is, to lessen cultural barriers to the delivery of health care to Mexican American patients by providing the health care professional with information that may help him understand events occurring in the lives of some of their patients This educational package is designed to promote awareness of culturally relevant symbols and forms of communication that are used by curanderos in the hope that knowledge of these patterns of behavior can be useful to health professionals in their treatment of some of their Mexican American patients. The goal of the complete educational package is the sensitization of health practitioners to culturally relevant cues in the delivery of health care and, ultimately, the lowering of cultural barriers to good health.
