Word: curanderismo
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...Texas, home of most of the U.S.'s 2,000,000 or more citizens of Mexican origin. Although some families have had U.S. citizenship since Texas' annexation in 1845, most of these, like the Juan-come-latelys, have clung to their ancestral language, customs -and faith in curanderismo. It flourishes throughout the Rio Grande Valley...
...Quack? In Hidalgo, second county upriver from the Gulf, health authorities got state help for a four-year study by anthropologists and sociologists. Last week, in Hidalgo's county seat of Edinburg, the researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight it-join it." To the incredulous M.D.s who heard the report, Study Director William Madsen, a University of Texas anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place...
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