Article ID: CBB001420476

¿Colonialismo biomédico o autonomía de lo local? Sanadores tradicionales contra la tuberculosis (2010)

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The article explores the role played by indigenous medical agents, and their knowledge, within contemporary tuberculosis campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. To understand the historical framework within which the World Health Organization devised its strategies to promote and develop traditional medicine as of the 1970s, the article contextualizes contemporary medicine as a cultural legacy of colonial medicine. Under the public healthcare projects analyzed in the article, local medical practices were assessed and indigenous agents trained so they could take part in strictly biomedical activities, like symptom identification, referrals to hospitals, or supervision of drug treatments.

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Authors & Contributors
Palmer, Steven Paul
Hochman, Gilberto
Rice, Carla
Manning, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii
Stonefish, Mona
Boye, Seika
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Disease and diseases
Public health
Infectious diseases
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Science and race
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
17th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Africa
Brazil
Argentina
Canada
Korea
India
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Royal Society of London
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