Lise Bouchard, Ph.D.

Latest Publications

Bouchard L. The Overlooked Impact of Quichua on the Grammar of Ecuadorian Spanish: the Trojan Effect in Linguistics, in preparation.
Bouchard L. Quichua Jambi Shimicuna A multilingual medical lexicon (Quichua Spanish-French-English). In preparation.
Incayawar M., Saucier, J-F., Bouchard L. The Analgesic Effect of Daring Words. In preparation for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Bouchard L. Acknowledging the Clinical Effects of Words in Pain and Psychiatry. In Overlapping Pain and Psychiatric Syndromes, Incayawar, M., Clark, M. and Maldonado-Bouchard, S.(eds.), Oxford University Press (in press).
Incayawar, M., Bouchard, L. Llaqui: A Quichuas' Illness Experience of Pain and Psychiatric Comorbidity, in Overlapping Pain and Psychiatric Syndromes, Incayawar, M., Clark, M. and Maldonado-Bouchard, S. (eds.), Oxford University Press (in press).
Maldonado-Bouchard S, Bouchard L, Incayawar M (2015) Broken Promises – Indigenous Peoples’ Mental Health in South America. Lancet Psychiatry 2(1):8-10. DOI
Maldonado-Bouchard S, Bouchard L, Incayawar M, (2015) Baffling Clinical Encounters: Navigating a Pain and Psychiatric Quichua Syndrome. In Troublesome Disguises (2nd Edition), Bhugra D and Malhi G (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. More
Bouchard L. (2013) Quichua Belief System on Language Acquisition and Social Use: Cultural Resilience in Quichua-Spanish Contact, Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 55 (1), p. 36-60. More
Bouchard L. (2013) A Linguistic Approach for Understanding Pain in the Medical Encounter. In Incayawar M, Todd, K (eds.) Culture, Brain and Analgesia: Understanding and Managing Pain in Diverse Populations, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, p. 9-19. More Info
Bouchard L. (2013) Using a Linguistic Approach in Pain Medicine: Advances in Doctor-patient Communication”, The Journal of Pain, Vol.14 (4), Supplement 1, p. S7. DOI
Bouchard L . (2013)Presentation on Using a Linguistic Approach in Pain Medicine: Advances in Doctor-patient Communication, American Pain Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting, May 8-11, New Orleans.
Incayawar M., Bouchard L., Maldonado-Bouchard S. (2010) Living without Psychiatrists in the Andes - Plight and Resilience of the Quichua (Inca) People. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 2: 119–125. DOI
Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L. (2009) Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health. London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. More Info
Bouchard L. (2009) The Awakening of Collaboration Beetween Quichua Healers and Psychiatrists in the Andes. In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bouchard L. (2005) Pharmaceutical Anthropology in Sal Restivo, ed., Science, Technology and Society: An Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press.
La variation ethnique dans la réponse aux psychotropes.
Ethnicité et effets indésirables des médicaments.
Disparités dans le traitement de la douleur chez les minorités ethniques.
Pour une pratique culturellement sensible: tenir compte de l'indigénisation des médicaments.
La douleur et la réponse aux analgésiques sont-elles différentes chez les femmes?
L'automutilation: un cri de détresse.

There are approximately 400 indigenous languages spoken in South America.

Quichua is the most spoken Amerindian language.

Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia have the biggest number and the highest proportion of indigenous population in the Americas.

In Latin America, the use of an indigenous language in a household closely associates with poverty and extreme poverty. click here

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