Medical Pluralism in the Life of a Mexican Immigrant Woman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6064083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Carlos Belliard (Loma Linda University), Johnny Ramírez-Johnson (0000-0002-2225-9211, Loma Linda University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-285 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0739986305278130 |
| OpenAlex | W2161904846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 25 |
This case study reflects on the variety of approaches to health care in a pluralistic immigrant urban enclave in Southern California. In-depth interviews were conducted with a Mexican immigrant woman to explore and understand her health worldview and the strategies she uses in deciding among the diverse health care options available to protect and maintain her family’s health. Kleinman’s typology of health sectors (professional, folk, and popular) is applied to the popular healing practices of the key informant and her own health-seeking behaviors. These expose the conflict between a professional community that relies on categories and binary comparisons and the existence of multiple, simultaneous health care sectors. This case study highlights the paradoxical world of health and illness in a pluralistic medical setting and how those who reside in an environment where medical syncretism exists apparently see their options very differently from their professional health care providers
Acculturation · Health care · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Typology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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“Treating myself first”
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Self-rated health in Canadian immigrants
Female Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Medical Pluralism in the Use of Sobadores among Mexican Immigrants to North Carolina
You Earn Money by Suffering Pain
Transnational Cultural Ecologies
“We always heal like this”
Santos Remedios
Medicinal plant knowledge in a context of cultural pluralism
Cross-cultural adaptation in urban ethnobotany
A Comparison of White and Hispanic Women's Stories of Adjustment to the Birth of a Child
Heading South
South Texas Mexican American Use of Traditional Folk and Mainstream Alternative Therapies
Relying on What They Know
Hybridization between biomedicine and alternative medicine in Covid-19 care in a neo-rural population of Córdoba, Argentine
Remedios Caseros
México Profundo
Qualitative evaluation and research methods
Trends in Alternative Medicine Use in the United States, 1990-1997
The social transformation of American medicine
Culture & truth
Intercultural communication
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Come Bien, Camina y No Se Preocupe—Eat Right, Walk, and Do Not Worry
Use of Herbal Therapies Among Midlife Mexican Women
International Efforts Spotlight Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine
Developing Narrative Structure
Acculturation, Respect for Cultural Differences, and Biculturalism Among Three Generations of Mexican American and Euro American School Children
Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis
Positivism's Twilight
The Local and the Global
The 'eclipse' of folk medicine in western society
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |