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- Title
Intercultural Health Practices: Towards an Equal Recognition Between Indigenous Medicine and Biomedicine? A Case Study from Chile.
- Authors
Torri, Maria
- Abstract
Over the past few years, intercultural health has become an emerging issue in health policy. Intercultural health is an approach in health that aims at reducing the gap between indigenous and western health systems, on the basis of mutual respect and equal recognition of these knowledge systems. This article questions the applicability of such a concept in the context of Chile. Here, conflicting interests between the Mapuche and the Chilean state are related to aspects of economic development, modernity processes, integration, intercultural relations, and indigenous rights and are deeply reflected also in projects for an intercultural health system. By analysing the experience of the intercultural practice of Makewe Hospital, this article argues that effective and equitable intercultural health practices will not take place unless there will be an integral valorisation of the Mapuche culture from a broader perspective.
- Subjects
CHILE; CULTURE; MEDICINE; LATIN American traditional medicine
- Publication
Health Care Analysis, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
1065-3058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10728-011-0170-3