About the depressing universal: study of a case of Amerindian resistance to biomedical capture
Maria Clara Campos,
José Francisco Miguel Henriques Bairrão
Abstract:Objective In the midst of assimilationist onslaughts, the Xavante determined the migration of children to Ribeirão Preto/SP, where they would grow and observe the white people. One of the recent protagonists of this migration experienced intense psychic suffering, diagnosed and treated by western medicine. He showed significant improvements; however, only when he finally returned to the village of origin he got completely rehabilitated. The objective of this work was to go beyond the canonical biomedical narra… Show more
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