¿Colonialismo biomédico o autonomía de lo local? Sanadores tradicionales contra la tuberculosis
AUTOR(ES)
Ortega Martos, Antonio Miguel
FONTE
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010-12
RESUMO
The article explores the role played by indigenous medical agents, and their knowledge, within contemporary tuberculosis campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. To understand the historical framework within which the World Health Organization devised its strategies to promote and develop traditional medicine as of the 1970s, the article contextualizes contemporary medicine as a cultural legacy of colonial medicine. Under the public healthcare projects analyzed in the article, local medical practices were assessed and indigenous agents trained so they could take part in strictly biomedical activities, like symptom identification, referrals to hospitals, or supervision of drug treatments.
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