Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Defining the Boundaries of Medical Semiotics -- CHAPTER 2. The Research Setting -- CHAPTER 3. Therapeutic Resources and Pluralistic Medical Systems -- CHAPTER 4. The Garinagu of Punta Gorda -- CHAPTER 5. The Model of Cause and Effect Relationships -- CHAPTER 6. Therapies, Therapists, and Therapeutic Resources -- CHAPTER 7. Case Studies, Culture Texts, and Culture Models -- CHAPTER 8. Health Seeking Transactions in a Pluralistic Society -- Bibliography -- Appendix A. Additional Expressions Used in Discussions of Illness or Presentation of Signs -- Appendix B. Patent Preparations and Biomedically Justified Preparations -- Appendix C. Medicines used in Bush Preparations -- Index