James B. Waldram is a professor of medical and applied anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention and Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Ten-Minute BreakChapter One. Empiricism, Materialism, and Indigenous MedicineChapter Two. Maya Medicine, Medical Ethnography, and the Research ContextChapter Three. General Principles of Q'eqchi' MedicineChapter Four. Sickness and NosologyChapter Five. The Diagnostic ProcessChapter Six. The Clinical Context of TreatmentChapter Seven. Principle and Practice in Q'eqchi' MedicineAfterword 2020GlossaryNotesReferences CitedIndex

James B. Waldram is a professor of medical and applied anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention and Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Ten-Minute BreakChapter One. Empiricism, Materialism, and Indigenous MedicineChapter Two. Maya Medicine, Medical Ethnography, and the Research ContextChapter Three. General Principles of Q'eqchi' MedicineChapter Four. Sickness and NosologyChapter Five. The Diagnostic ProcessChapter Six. The Clinical Context of TreatmentChapter Seven. Principle and Practice in Q'eqchi' MedicineAfterword 2020GlossaryNotesReferences CitedIndex