Yao (Mien) family outside Dooley's clinic

Photographer

Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929-

Date

• May 1957

Summary

• This Yao (Mien) woman at Dooley's clinic is suffering from goiter, which results from iodine deficiency. Other women wait their turn in the background at the door to the clinic. The women had come to the Dooley clinic to be treated but this may also have been in conjunction with visits to trade. They came from their villages in the mountains near Nam Tha.