Taiwan Root in the Peruvian Amazon: 08/2002 ALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL NAGLE
The Peruvian Amazon with Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps.
1.29.2006
Aguaruna (People of the Water)
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In January of 2002, CNN reported a massacre in the remote jungle region of Northern Peru. Settlers had been attacked by upwards of 150 Agua...
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1.28.2006
The Aguaruna are known for being fierce defenders of thier culture
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The Aguaruna have always been hostile to outsiders. When the Inca Empire covered much of modern Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Paraguay Aguaruna...
1.27.2006
Aguaruna...the original biotech industry
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The Aguaruna know how to use the plants of the Amazon in a way that is just now being understood by western scientists. They, like other tr...
1.26.2006
Aguaruna Agriculture
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Most of the Aguaruna survive through subsistence farming. With an average per capita income of only US $34, they are unable to buy much foo...
1.25.2006
Taiwan Root on the road to Imaza
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The road ends at Imaza. It is a five-hour journey from Bagua along, what according to the Peruvian police is “one of the more dangerous str...
1.24.2006
Amazon jungle and yucca beer. 35 patients an hour. 11 hour days. Welcome to Huampami
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Taiwan Root was welcomed to Huampami with a meal of boiled yucca and plantain, and a chunk of wild pig. A traditional welcome ceremony of th...
1.23.2006
Parasitic infections of the skin, stomach, and intestines are common in the Amazon.
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The Root starts work early, cooking breakfast around 6am, and punching in around seven. But so do the patients. The lines began to form befo...
1.22.2006
Steaming heat, screaming children, and suspicious patients are not the norm in the Taiwan offices of these MDs.
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Dentistry was by far the busiest area of the medical service. Most Aguaruan are rarely even within 50 miles of a dentist office. This not on...
1.21.2006
Professor Cheung
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Professor Cheung feels that he was fated to practice medicine. Diagnosed with cholera at the age of five, he was cured by an Uncle who was ...
1.20.2006
Felipe
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There is an entry wound in the middle of his front left shoulder. It is small and tidy, at least compared to the massive exit wound on his ...
1.19.2006
Dr. Huang
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Dr. Huang has been with Taiwan root since its inception. He participates in almost every medical mission- doing work in Taipei’s mountain r...
1.18.2006
Children
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Like in all cultures, children are an important part of Aguaruna society. In Huampami, to honor the anniversary of their school, children m...
1.17.2006
Emergency surgery in the Amazon
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Soon after Taiwan Root arrived in Huampami a young girl with a facial wound was brought to be treated. Five days earlier, while playing out...
1.16.2006
Leaving the Jungle
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During Taiwan Root's medical service in Peru, they traversed the Pacific Ocean, the Equator, the Peruvian Coast, the Andes Mountains, an...
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