University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations 5-1-2013 Medicina del Barrio: Shadow Medicine Among Milwaukee's Latino Community Ramona Chiquita Tenorio University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the Alternative and Complementary Medicine Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Tenorio, Ramona Chiquita, "Medicina del Barrio: Shadow Medicine Among Milwaukee's Latino Community" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 166. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/166 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MEDICINA DEL BARRIO: SHADOW MEDICINE AMONG MILWAUKEE’S LATINO COMMUNITY by Ramona C. Tenorio A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee May 2013 ABSTRACT MEDICINA DEL BARRIO: SHADOW MEDICINE AMONG MILWAUKEE’S LATINO COMMUNITY by Ramona C. Tenorio The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, under the supervision of Dr. Tracey Heatherington As a result of exclusionary state and federal policy decisions on immigration and health care, marginalized immigrants often seek health care in the shadows of U.S. cities through practitioners such as curandera/os* (healers), huesera/os* (bonesetters), parteras* (midwives), and sobadora/es* (massagers). under the radar of biomedical practice. This research focuses on this phenomenon in the context of globalized social networks and health care practices of marginalized Latino immigrants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and within the broader economic and political context in this country.