Performing spiritual healing in the here and now: botánicas and holistic health care

Castañeda, Angela N.

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“…Rather, it is in general "a wide range of social activities" including getting one's way, promoting certain interests, and influencing others to do something (Constantinou 2016, p. 24;Ibid.). Within healthcare and medicine, the notion 'medical diplomacy' has been framed as a form of soft power building international relations, commercializing traditional knowledge, and building bridge between spiritual and biomedical healthcare (Castañeda 2015;Feinsilver 2003;Moret 2008). In addition, 'global health diplomacy' is widely used to describe how governments and other institutions practice and coordinate responses to improve global health (Ruckert et al 2016).…”

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Making it happen: data practices and the power of diplomacy among Danish organ transplant coordinators

Jensen

2022

BioSocieties

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Danish transplant coordinators handle all data and logistics involved with the removal and transfer of organs from the body of an organ donor into several recipients in other Scandinavian hospitals. This entails a wide range of data work, not only in relation to sudden organ donation cases, but also to documenting transplantations, providing feedback on donation outcomes, and facilitating the data needed by surgeons or other health professionals. This article investigates the data practices of organ transplant coordinators through the lens of diplomacy. Based on participant observation and interviews among Danish transplant coordinators, I focus on the cross-disciplinary relations and negotiations characterizing organ exchanges and show how datafication in itself is not enough to ensure smooth transplantation processes. Organ transplantation depends on the diplomatic social skills of the coordinator and the personal relationships between coordinators, surgeons and ICU staff. By bringing into focus the power of diplomacy, I conceptualize these structurally invisible efforts enabling organ donation and its associated data practices. Diplomacy enables us to recognize and understand the relational efforts and aspects of datafication, and the tremendous amount of work and social skill that go into producing and exchanging data in contemporary healthcare.

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Making it happen: data practices and the power of diplomacy among Danish organ transplant coordinators

Jensen

2022

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“…Más recientemente, el interés académico por las botánicas se ha expandido a diversas disciplinas incluyendo las artes visuales (Otero 2007;Polk 2004), la etnobotánica que estudia el tratamiento con hierbas de afecciones específicas (Anderson et al 2008;Balick et al 2000;Dearfield y Pugh-Yi 2011), hasta llegar a su rol holístico -que implica la convergencia entre los niveles espiritual, físico y religioso (Castañeda 2015;Cintrón-Moscoso 2012;Gomez-Beloz y Chavez 2001;Jones et al 2001;Murphy 2015Murphy y 2010. Este trabajo se ubica en esta última línea de investigación por cuanto examina el papel que desempeñan las botánicas y sus proveedores, en cuanto a satisfacer las necesidades diversas de la población latinoamericana que se acerca a ellas.…”

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Las botánicas como “farmacias invisibles”: Religiones afrocaribeñas y su rol en la población latina de la ciudad de Nueva York

Viladrich

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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La Santería es el nombre genérico que comúnmente se utiliza para designar a la Regla de Osha (con sus variantes Ifá y Regla Lucumí, Delgado 2009) que combina creencias cristiano-católicas con las de origen Yoruba. La correspondencia entre los patronos católicos y las deidades yorubas (orishas) es compleja y no puede reducirse simplemente a la noción de sincretismo religioso (Bolívar 1993).

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Herbs and Saints in the City of Angels: Researching Botánicas, Healing, and Power in Southern California

Jones

2020

Journal of American Folklore

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This essay presents results of an exploratory project from 2000–2002 on folk medicine among Latinx healers in Los Angeles, initiated because little research had been conducted on botánicas anywhere in the United States. The findings reveal that most of the healers are steeped in more than one religious and healing tradition, and that many of these specialists are not, as sometimes assumed, poorly educated, unsophisticated, or adversaries of biomedical care. In addition, clientele are not exclusively Latinx, immigrants, or impoverished, and they seek help for physical, emotional, interpersonal, legal, and other problems including alcoholism, the last of which practitioners attend to with plant and ritual therapies as well as by recommending treatment centers. Data from this study can help inform educational and medical programs regarding faith-based and herbal therapies by vernacular practitioners in Los Angeles.

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Performing spiritual healing in the here and now: botánicas and holistic health care

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Making it happen: data practices and the power of diplomacy among Danish organ transplant coordinators

Making it happen: data practices and the power of diplomacy among Danish organ transplant coordinators

Las botánicas como “farmacias invisibles”: Religiones afrocaribeñas y su rol en la población latina de la ciudad de Nueva York

Herbs and Saints in the City of Angels: Researching Botánicas, Healing, and Power in Southern California

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