Contents -- Foreword, by Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction, by Brad R. Huber -- CHAPTER 2: Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component, by Luz María Hernández Sáenz and George M. Foster -- CHAPTER 3: Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala: Its Historical Evolution from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, by Carlos Viesca Treviño -- CHAPTER 4: Central and North Mexican Shamans, by James W. Dow -- CHAPTER 5: A Comparative Analysis of Southern Mexican and Guatemalan Shamans, by Frank J. Lipp -- CHAPTER 6: Mistress of Lo Espiritual, by Kaja Finkler -- CHAPTER 7: Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Indigenous Midwive:s From the Mexico-United States Border to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom -- CHAPTER 8: Maya Midwives of Southern Mexico and Guatemala, by Sheila Cosminsky -- CHAPTER 9: Relations between Government HealthWorkers and Traditional Midwives in Guatemala, by Elena Hurtado and Eugenia Sáenz de Tejada -- CHAPTER 10: Mesoamerican Bonesetters, by Benjamin D. Paul and Clancy McMahon -- CHAPTER 11: Mexican Physicians, Nurses, and Social Workers, by Margaret E. Harrison -- CHAPTER 12: Mesoamerican Healers and Medical Anthropology: Summary and Concluding Remarks, by Alan R. Sandstrom -- Glossary -- References Cited -- Contributors to the Volume -- Index.