Indigenismo and rural medicine in Peru : the Indian sanitary brigade and Manuel Nuñez Butrón / Marcos Cueto.
Abstract:
'... during the 1930s the department of Puno, located in south-eastern Peru, was the site of a commingling between the practices of Western medicine and the Indian culture. This rare interweaving was favored by the emergence of a nationalist current called "indigenismo", which encouraged a reconsideration of native traditions and culture ... The main character of this story was Manuel Nuñez Butrón, a young Peruvian physician who organized an Indian rural sanitary brigade in Puno and published a popular medical review.'
Bulletin of the history of medicine Vol. 65 (1991), p. 22-41