Joan Koss-Chioino is Professor of Anthropology and affiliate of the Women's Studies Department at Arizona State University. She is also Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, Research Professor of Psychology at George Washington University, and author of Women as Healers, Women as Patients (1992) and Working with Latino Youth (1999). Thomas Leatherman is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Christine Greenway is affiliated with the University of Washington.

'The great strength of the book, rare in an edited volume, is the coherence at the heart of these collected essays.' - Mountain Research and Development, Vol 24.'Given the book's inclusion of multifaceted data on the Andes, the text's breadth, and the clear and engaging style in which the essays are written ... this text makes good reading for graduate students and undergraduate students alike in anthropology.' - Mountain Research and Development, Vol 24.

• Foreword June Nash List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Andean Medical Studies and the Contribution of Libbet Crandon-Malamud 1. The Andean Context Ann Miles and Tom Leatherman 2. Ethnography and the Person: A Reflection on Libbet Crandon's Andean Fieldwork Joan Koss-Chiono 3. Changing Times, Changing Symptoms: The Effects of Modernization on Mestizo Medicine in Rural Bolivia Libbet Crandon 4. Contributions to a Critical Analysis of Medical Pluralism: An Examination of the Work of Libbet Crandon-Malamud Hans Baer Section One: Choices, Changing Times and Medical Pluralism Introduction 5. Setting it Straight in the Andes: Musculoskeletal Distress and the Role of the Componedor Kathryn Oths 6. Healing Soul Loss: The Negotiation of Identity in Peru Christine Greenway 7. Healers as Entrepreneurs: Constructing an Image of Legitimized Potency in Urban Ecuador Ann Miles Section Two: Andean Bodies - Metaphors and Medicine Introduction 8. Ethnomedicine and Enculturation in the Andes of Ecuador Lauris McKee 9. Food, Health and Identity in a Rural Andean Community Margaret Graham 10. Sucking Blood or Snatching Fat: Chaga's Disease in Bolivia Joseph Bastien Section Three: Gender, Power and Health Introduction 11. Why Sobreparto?: Women's Health, Work and Reproduction in Two Districts of Southern Peru Ann Larme and Tom Leatherman 12. Illness Management, Social Alliance and Cultural Identity in Quito Ecuador Laurie Price 13. Anthropology and Shamanism: Image and Practice in Peru Bonnie Glass-Coffin