Mary I O'Connor
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long medicine has not recognized that numerous health conditions like heart disease, stroke, stress, mental health and more impact women differently than men. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. OConnor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq want to change that by empowering women with knowledge about the current landscape of womens health, and showing them how to actively engage...
2) Mixtec evangelicals: globalization, migration, and religious change in a Oaxacan Indigenous group
Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 136 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic...