Debilidad: a biocultural assessment of an embodied Andean illness.
The writer examines the illness known as “debilidad,” a “women's illness” of which north Peruvian highlanders complain when expressing an embodied exhaustion resulting from a lifelong accumulation of productive and reproductive stresses. She reveals that this illness is also experienced by men and...
| Published in: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 286 - 316 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
September 1999
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