La institucionalización científica de los saberes tradicionales sobre plantas medicinales en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

This paper analyzes the valorization of traditional knowledge on medicinal plants in the Mexican academic-scientific milieu, focusing on its institutionalization at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Thus, considering that the proposal of a thesis is an instrument of knowledge mobilization, the tasks carried out in this regard at the UNAM during the 1900s-2010s were identified and characterized, eliciting additional data through documentation research and interviews with key actors. The research found that during the 1970s the interest on the study of medicinal plants abruptly broke into the academic-scientific space of the UNAM, maintaining a growing trend up to these days, gradually forming itself as a valid object of study, opening new lines of research and shaping a new field of knowledge: medical ethnobotany. However, this new field emerges within other fields, from which it begins to be approached and materialized, still circulating in a somewhat veiled existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]