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THE PRACTICE OF PLURALISTIC MEDICINE BY LONG-TERM
IMMIGRANT AND NATIVE-BORN MEXICAN AMERICANS IN SANTA
ANA, CALIFORNIA: THE PERSISTENCE OF TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE
by
Frank R. Carrillo
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SOCIOLOGY)
December 2008
Copyright 2008
Frank R. Carrillo
Object Description
| Title | The practice of pluralistic medicine by long-term immigrant and native-born Mexican Americans in Santa Ana, California: the persistence of traditional medicine |
| Author | Carrillo, Frank R. |
| Author email | fcarrill@usc.edu; frankcarrillo1946@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Sociology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-07-15 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-12-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Ransford, H. Edward |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Casper, Lynne M. Baezconde-Garbarnati, Lourdes Maxwell, William |
| Abstract | The sociological literature on Mexican American or Latino healthcare seeking generally suggests that more assimilated Mexican American seek conventional medicine when a health problems arises and the less assimilated seek more traditional Mexican folk remedies. Healthcare seekers are seen as reactive to social and cultural factors in making healthcare decisions. More recently, literature which documents pluralistic medical behavior among Mexican Americans has emerged and represents an important departure from social and cultural factors explanations. This research builds upon the pluralistic medical model and argues that Mexican Americans are not simply reactive to social and cultural factors but are more active agents in making healthcare decisions. A new model, the Social Action Paradigm is developed and used as a framework to analyze and interpret the results of intensive interviews with 16 long-term (ten years or more residency) Mexican immigrants and 17 native-born Mexican Americans in Santa Ana, California. The results of the study support the idea that agency does indeed play a part in the healthcare seeking practices of the study participants and, to an important degree, contributes to the persistence of the use of Mexican traditional folk medicine among both groups. |
| Keyword | Latino health; Mexican-American health; immigrant health; Mexican folk medicine; pluralistic medicine |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Santa Ana |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1875 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Carrillo, Frank R. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Carrillo-2491 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Carrillo-2491.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | THE PRACTICE OF PLURALISTIC MEDICINE BY LONG-TERM IMMIGRANT AND NATIVE-BORN MEXICAN AMERICANS IN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA: THE PERSISTENCE OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE by Frank R. Carrillo ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SOCIOLOGY) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Frank R. Carrillo |
