Fataluku Healing and Cultural Resilience in East Timor

McWilliam, Andrew

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Fataluku Healing and Cultural Resilience in East Timor

Date

2008

Authors

McWilliam, Andrew

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

The destruction that accompanied the Indonesian withdrawal from East Timor in 1999 included the collapse of state-sponsored health services. As the new national government slowly reintroduces biomedical and other social services across the country, local