Gender, domestic violence and sickness in Mexico.

A vast social science literature exists devoted to women's health problems in developed nations..* A great deal has also been written about woraen's health in developing nations, but the majority of these investigations have centered around wo~aen's health in association with their reproductive capacities.t Little attention has been paid, however, to women's sub-acute non-life threatening conditions in developing nations, impairments not directly related to women's reproductive capacities and for which biomedicine lacks remedies.:~ In my study of patients seeking treatment from Spiritualist healers in Mexico I found, in a ran-