Beyond the Next Village: A Year of Magic and Medicine in Nepal Audiobook Libro.fm

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Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercers memoir of discovery growth and awakening in 1978 Nepal which was then a mysterious country to most of the world After arriving in Nepal Mercer an American nurse spent a year traveling on footoften in flipflopswith a Nepali health team providing immunizations and clinical care in each village they visited Communicating in a newly acquired language she was often called upon to provide the only modern medicine available to the people she and her team were serving Over time she learned to recognize and respect the prominence of their cultural beliefs about health and illness Encounters with lifethreatening conditions such as severe malnutrition and ectopic pregnancy gave her an enlightening view of both the limitations and power of modern health care immersed in villagers lives and those of her own team she realized she was living in not just another country but another time This unique story of the joys and perils of one womans journey in the shadow of the Himalayas Beyond the Next Village opens a window into a world where the spirits were as real as the trees the birds or the rainand healing could be as much magic as medicine