La enfermedad y la curación ¿Qué es medicina tradicional?

Eduardo Menéndez ^[1]
1. [1] Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
  
  Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
  
  México
Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 4, Nº. 7, 1994 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La cultura de la pobreza: O. Lewis), págs. 71-83
Idioma: español
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Resumen
- In this work, some characteristics of popular knowledge are analysed, regarding the health/illness/care (from now on; h/i/s process) as well as hegemonical medical knowledge, considering that even though biomedicine shows proof of a continuous process of technologi-cal and expansive change, popular knowledge is also characterized by a constant process of modification, in which the beliefs and resulting practices from diffe-rent roots, including biomedical, are provisionally synthesized