Conceiving science as a social construction, we remove the ideals of neutrality and impartiality.The discussion of Homeopathy's legitimacy in the scientific field is associated with dissent, referring to a historical conflict. This study evaluates qualitatively and quantitatively the presence of homeopathy in Brazilian veterinary medical schools. In curriculum perspective as territorial disputes, we analyze the tension between the homeopathy's discourse and scientific medicine, two distinct epistemes. These activities related to homeopathy were investigated: compulsory subject, elective subject, clinical care and academic research. The results show that homeopathy is offered in 20.1% of veterinary medical schools in the country. Furthermore, its offer is heterogeneous. There is a discrepancy between the formal and the real curriculum: the absence of homeopathy in the curriculum is justified by the lack of homeopathic veterinarians in the academic context. Personal initiatives are motivators of homeopathic activities found in academic curriculums. However, its institutionalization is fragile. We conclude that the homeopathy's subsidiary position in the academic field is justified as it diverges from the epistemological construction of scientific medicine.
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