2015
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702015000100018
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Las medicinas tradicionales en la encrucijada intercultural

Abstract: E sta obra colectiva, compilada por el antropólogo español Gerardo Fernández Juárez (Universidad Castilla-La Mancha), es fruto de un seminario-taller interdisciplinario, celebrado en Quito del 10 al 13 de noviembre del 2009. Agrupa diferentes maneras de entender la interculturalidad y la salud materna desde la antropología y la biomedicina. La reseña de esta obra tiene un doble propósito. Por un lado, presentar el contenido en sus grandes líneas, resaltando el discurso oficial de la interculturalidad en salud … Show more

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“…21 In various Latin American countries where Intercultural health has been applied, strategies of hegemony have been carried out, with actions aimed at the knowledge of traditional medicine, its scope and applications 7 , posing these hegemonic models, these countries have faced the challenge of getting traditional therapists accredited, in order to avoid malpractice and trickery in its execution. 22 The institutionalization of traditional therapists and their empowerment within the health system will place them in a legal framework so that these new social agents have the possibility of exercising in a legitimate manner 23 , respecting the knowledge of other's and generating spaces of trust in which both medicines converge and create human resources with intercultural competence and sensitivity. 24 By doing so, professionals will develop a broad, comprehensive epidemiological vision of the ways of understanding the healthdisease process by indigenous people, as their perception of reality, ideology and life have been generated in the knowledge of nature and the environment that surrounds them.…”
Section: Interculturality In Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…21 In various Latin American countries where Intercultural health has been applied, strategies of hegemony have been carried out, with actions aimed at the knowledge of traditional medicine, its scope and applications 7 , posing these hegemonic models, these countries have faced the challenge of getting traditional therapists accredited, in order to avoid malpractice and trickery in its execution. 22 The institutionalization of traditional therapists and their empowerment within the health system will place them in a legal framework so that these new social agents have the possibility of exercising in a legitimate manner 23 , respecting the knowledge of other's and generating spaces of trust in which both medicines converge and create human resources with intercultural competence and sensitivity. 24 By doing so, professionals will develop a broad, comprehensive epidemiological vision of the ways of understanding the healthdisease process by indigenous people, as their perception of reality, ideology and life have been generated in the knowledge of nature and the environment that surrounds them.…”
Section: Interculturality In Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The indigenous worldview is very different from western culture 25 , which is considered the "dominant" culture and this could endanger indigenous autonomy by subordination in to a set of regulations and hierarchies. 22 Mexico has a significant lag in health conditions, due to the dispersion and geographical isolation as there is limited access to services in many states in the country, adding to this the discriminatory treatment towards the indigenous population, leaving them with unsatisfied needs and demands. This population seems invisible to institutions, hence the need for strategies that are generated in the population itself 26 , this will set the standard for applying them successfully in a collective way, where the intercultural approach contributes to the impact that can be measured in the current health of the population.…”
Section: Interculturality In Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%