Medicina indígena y salud mental
The different medical alternatives used today by humanity enrich the prophylaxis as well as the diagnoses and the treatment of diseases when these are tackled within a multicausal framework. In this paper two of these alternatives are considered: Western medicine and indigenous medicine. It focuses...
- Autores:
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Vallejo-Samudio, Álvaro Roberto
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2006
- Institución:
- Universidad Católica de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- RIUCaC - Repositorio U. Católica
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.ucatolica.edu.co:10983/1179
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10983/1179
- Palabra clave:
- MEDICINA INDÍGENA
MEDICINA OCCIDENTAL
SALUD MENTAL
INDIGENOUS MEDICINE
WESTERN MEDICINE
MENTAL HEALTH
MEDICINA PRIMITIVA
ENFERMEDADES-TRATAMIENTO
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Derechos Reservados - Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2006
| Summary: | The different medical alternatives used today by humanity enrich the prophylaxis as well as the diagnoses and the treatment of diseases when these are tackled within a multicausal framework. In this paper two of these alternatives are considered: Western medicine and indigenous medicine. It focuses on the concept of health developed by these two approaches, emphasizes the need to reassess indigenous medicine, and examines in general how mental health disorders are regarded from the point of view of indigenous medicine. The author stresses that in order to understand this conception it is necessary to get acquainted with the cosmogony and cosmology characteristics of indigenous people. |
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