The Kiss of Death

Eucalyptus leaves, 44

Evasive strategies, of T. cruzi, 212-13, 229 n.2

EVI antibodies, 215

F

FAB (antigen-binding fragment) and Fc (crystallizable fragment), 212-13

Fabulation, and immune response to T. cruzi, 212, 213

Feces, of T. infestans, 58-59, 174, 177-78

Fetus, maternal transmission of T. cruzi, 61, 230-31 n.8. See also Congenital transmission

Fever, and Chagas’ disease:

acute phase and, 49;

as cultural illness, 68;

Kallawaya herbalists and, 38

Figaroa, Ciro, 50

Flax seeds, 42

Flight, of T. infestans, 56, 174

Food, contamination of with T. cruzi, 62

Forde, R. M., 1

Foundations, of houses and Chagas’ prevention, 120

France, and Chagas’ disease, 94

Frasch, Alberto, 168

Free market economy, and poverty in urban Bolivia, 103-104, 105

Freire, Paulo, 234 n.8

Fryer, Michelle L., 116

G

Garcia Meza, Luis, 233 n.2

Garret, Laurie, 155

Gelbard, Robert, xix, xx

Gemio alario, Abraham, 179-80

Gender, inequality and Chagas’ disease in Bolivia, 116

Genetic variability, of T. cruzi strains, 163

Gentian violet, and blood contaminated with T. cruzi, 60, 223-24

Glycoproteins, on surface of T. cruzi, 168-70

Goats, as hosts for T. cruzi, 195

Goldbaum, M., 94

Gonzalez, J., 165

Gonzalez, Silverio, 147

Gregg, Linda, 148

Guarani tribes (Bolivia), 96, 97, 126, 140

Guatemala, infestation of houses with T. infestans, 184

Guayusa, and herbal medicine, 37

Guinea pigs, 194, 195

Gutierrez, Ronald, 148

H

Hagar, J. M., xxii

Hartenberger, Paul, xix, xx

Healers of the Andes: Kallawaya Herbalists and Their Medicinal Plants (Bastien, 1987), xvii

Health:

biomedical definition of illness, 40;

Culture Context Model for Chagas’ prevention, 141;

immunopathic medicine and paradigm of, 87;

World Health Organization’s definition of, 144-45. See also Public health

Heart block, 79, 203, 204, 232 n.3

Heart disease, Chagas’:

acute phase and, 197;

case study of in Bolivia, 78-87;

cardiac pathologies, 232n.3-4;

Darwin and, 10, 11;

morbidity in rural areas of Bolivia, 47;

symptoms of chronic, 203-204;

underdiagnosis of in U.S., xxii

Herbal medicine:

exports of from Bolivia, 111-52;

interdisciplinary approach to prevention of Chagas’ disease, 149;

Kallawaya-Bolivian medicinal plants

and AIDS, cancer, Chagas’ disease, and tuberculosis, xvii;

Kallawaya herbalists and Chagas’ disease in Bolivia, 30-45

HIV, Chagas’ disease and spread of in Latin America, 86. See also AIDS

Honduras, infestation of houses with T. infestans, 184

Horses, as hosts for T. cruzi, 195

Hosts, and animal reservoirs for T. cruzi, 194-95

House Improvement Committees (HICs), 116-17

Housing:

baseline studies of Chagas’ disease in Chuquisaca, 226-27;

cooperatives in Bolivia and, 152;

cultural and political economy of Bolivia and physical proximity of vectors and hosts of Chagas’ disease, 88- 106;

Culture Context Model for Chagas’ prevention and, 138, 140;

Inca and T. infestans, 26;

prevention programs for Chagas’ disease and, 107-23, 124-33;

statistics on infestation of with T. infestans in Bolivia and Latin America, 179-83, 184-85

Howard, J. E., 230 n.6

Huaca (earth shrine), 157

Huarochiri legends, 156-57

Humoral theory:

chagasic esophagus and T. cruzi infection in Bolivia, 76;

ethnomedicine in Latin America and, 68, 72;

Kallawaya herbalists and explanation of Chagas’ disease, 35, 38-39

Hydraulics, physiological. See Humoral theory

Hypertrophy, of colon, 72

Hypoxia, 80, 82, 83, 204

I

Ileostomy, 74, 75

Ilex guayusa, 37

Illness: biomedical definition of, 40

Immune system, and Chagas’ disease:

acute phase and, 200-201;