Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercer's 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 foot-often in
flip-flops-with 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 life-threatening 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 woman's 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 rain-and healing could be as much magic as medicine.
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