Enfermedades y prácticas curativas en México. Diálogos entre el pasado y el presente
Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Instituto Mora (Colección Investigaciones), 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 307p., maps, tables, bibl., indices, wrps. New. Item #78692
ISBN: 9786075441405
Diseases and curative practices in Mexico. Dialogues between the past and the present, is a book that offers a multidisciplinary look at the health-disease-care process at different historical moments and in various places in our country. It provides a space for reflection where it is analyzed from history, anthropology and sociology, how from the sixteenth century the Hippocratic-Galenic model was established in New Spain after European colonization, in contrast to the medical practices and beliefs of the world. mesoamerican It refers to processes that led, in the 19th century, to the consolidation of medicine as a scientific discipline driven by an air of "modernity" coming from Europe -especially from France- which brought new scientific knowledge on various diseases to Mexico. At the same time, such knowledge consolidated during the Porfiriato a new hygienist way of understanding and practicing medicine. This work also gives an account of the vicissitudes through which the various forms of care for the disease have gone through in their transition from the traditional to the modern, as well as the current migratory dynamics that contribute to promoting the dialogue of knowledge between the different therapeutic resources that the population resorts to in their quest to regain health. The original contributions that shape this work call to question the borders between science and belief, between medicine and culture. of the vicissitudes through which the various forms of care for illness have gone through in their transition from the traditional to the modern, as well as the current migratory dynamics that contribute to promoting the dialogue of knowledge between the different therapeutic resources to which it resorts the population in its quest to regain health. The original contributions that shape this work call to question the borders between science and belief, between medicine and culture. of the vicissitudes through which the various forms of care for illness have gone through in their transition from the traditional to the modern, as well as the current migratory dynamics that contribute to promoting the dialogue of knowledge between the different therapeutic resources to which it resorts the population in its quest to regain health. The original contributions that shape this work call to question the borders between science and belief, between medicine and culture.
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