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1. ITINERARI TERAPEUTICI PLURALI.

Author

IORIO, SILVIA

Subjects
*NAHUAS, *TRADITIONAL medicine, *MEDICAL anthropology, *INDIGENOUS peoples of Mexico, *THERAPEUTICS
Abstract

This article addresses the strategies employed by Nahua community of Mexixo to deal with health problems. Drawing on qualitative research, it discusses the choice of plural therapeutic itineraries, including the use of informal and formal healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015

2. UNO STUDIO ETNOGRAFICO DELLE PRATICHE E DEI SAPERI MEDICI NEL CONTESTO NAHUA (NAUPAN, PUEBLA, MESSICO).

Author

IORIO, SILVIA

Subjects
*MEDICAL care, *HEALTH facilities, *MEDICINE, *COMMUNICABLE disease treatment, *PREVENTION of epidemics, *THERAPEUTICS
Abstract

The article focuses on a study conducted on varous developments in medical practices and knowledge in Nauha, Mexico. Topics discussed include the dialogue established between national health institutions and the population of various disadvantaged areas of Mexico; incorporation of biomedical tradition into new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of Mexico; and the use of biomedicine for the treatment of infectious diseases and preventing epidemics.

Published
2014

7. An ethnographic study of medical practices and knoweledge in the nahua contest ( Naupan, Puebla, Mexico)

Author

Silvia, Iorio

Subjects
Community Health Workers, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Primary Health Care, Attitude of Health Personnel, Herbal Medicine, Culture, Emotions, Religion and Medicine, Models, Biological, diagnostic categories, biomedical acculturation, Terminology as Topic, Indians, North American, Nahua, Humans, Disease, Community Health Services, Medicine, Traditional, Mexico, Anthropology, Cultural, Language
Abstract

In the last thirty years, the improvement of biomedical acculturate had influenced the medical tradition of Nauha, in souther-eastern Mexico. The study analyses how the constituent elements of biomedical tradition are incorporated into new rhetorical, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, mixed with languages and symbols typical of local tradition.

Published
2014

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