Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country

When the traditional meets the modern, nowhere is the impact felt as personally as in the realm of health care.

Because practitioners trained in Western science tend to ignore traditional medicine in developing countries, conflict is inevitable.Health Care in Maya Guatemala examines medical systems and institutions in three K’iche’ Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system.