Hegemonies, subalternities, and possible counter-hegemonies: The case of traditional medicine of Indigenous peoples in Mexico

Autor: Eduardo L. Menéndez
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Salud Colectiva, Vol 20 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1669-2381
1851-8265
DOI: 10.18294/sc.2024.4843
Popis: A whole series of processes lead to the decrease in the use of traditional medicine by the indigenous peoples of Mexico, including the reduction in the number of traditional healers and the direct and indirect expansion of biomedicine. This essay addresses the central role these processes play in the relations of hegemony/subalternity that occur in different fields of reality, and especially in the health-illness-care-prevention processes, given that counter-hegemonic processes are not generated, or those that do arise have been ineffective in confronting social hegemony in general and biomedical hegemony in particular.
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