Guatemala: Maya Mobile Medicine In Guatemala: The “Other” Public Health

Guatemala: Maya Mobile Medicine In Guatemala: The “Other” Public Health T. S. Harvey, 2011   Maya mobile medical providers in highland Guatemala and the goods and services that they offer from “soapboxes” on street corners, local markets, and on buses exemplify an important yet underinvestigated domain of localized health care, one that I refer to as the “other” public health. This medical and linguistic examination of traveling medical salespeople calls for a reconsideration (on a global...

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