Director Natasha Solomons
Country/Production USA / UK
Release 1989
Length 55 mins
Format Colour / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location Bolivia / America
Ethnic Group English, Bolivian
Order No RAI-200.207
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In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted with and tries to learn the methods of the local curandero’s methods of healing. The film is a highly revealing document of the encounter of different approaches to illness and is particularly suited for the teaching of Medical Anthropology.
