La doctora : an American doctor in the Amazon

La doctora : an American doctor in the Amazon / Linnea Smith.

In 1990, Dr. Linnea Smith went to Peru on an ecotourism vacation. She was so moved that she abandoned her thriving medical practice in Wisconsin to serve the Yagua Indians in the deepest part of the Amazon rainforest of Peru--alone. Taken straight from the pages of Dr. Smith's journal, La Docto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Linnea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002, ©1999.
Edition:1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Subjects:
Smith, Linnea.
Smith, Linnea
Physicians > Amazon River Region > Biography.
Tropical medicine > Amazon River Region > Anecdotes.
Indians of South America > Medical care > Amazon River Region > Anecdotes.
Physicians.
Tropical medicine.
physicians.
MEDICAL > Physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
FICTION > General.
Indians of South America > Medical care
Physicians
Tropical medicine
Amazon River Region
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Anecdotes
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Summary:In 1990, Dr. Linnea Smith went to Peru on an ecotourism vacation. She was so moved that she abandoned her thriving medical practice in Wisconsin to serve the Yagua Indians in the deepest part of the Amazon rainforest of Peru--alone. Taken straight from the pages of Dr. Smith's journal, La Doctora offers readers a rare glimpse into the suspense and drama of practicing medicine in a culture far removed from the sophisticated supplies and supports of 20th-century medicine. Learn how Dr. Smith evolved from a "strange white woman" to an adopted member of the indigenous community. Her story of advent
Item Description:Originally published: Duluth, Minn. : Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers, ©1999; with title: La doctora: the journal of an American doctor practicing medicine on the Amazon River.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9780816695409
0816695407
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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