Soc Sci Med. 1988 ; 27(5): 515-20.

Hegemony and healing in rural North Yemen.

Myntti C.

Department of Medical Demography, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, England.

This article examines medical pluralism by considering how people in a village in North Yemen respond to unusual and to ordinary ailments. The resort to care is explained against a backdrop of increasing economic differentiation and religious orthodoxy in the community.