Abstract

MENENDEZ, Eduardo L.. Medical anthropology in Latin America, 1990-2015: A strictly provisional review. Salud colect. [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.3, pp.461-481. ISSN 1669-2381.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2018.1838.

The article presents a provisional examination of the production of Latin American medical anthropology, especially from Mexico, and to a lesser degree Brazil, from 1990 to 2015, in an attempt to highlight the discipline’s principal contributions, orientations and objectives, but also to pose critiques and doubts, especially with respect to the omission of the study of serious collective health problems and processes. The article attempts to put into evidence the importance of the discipline not only for anthropology, but also for biomedicine, suggesting the need for complementation beyond the differences and incompatibilities that exist regarding, for example, the use of qualitative techniques, and interventions -or lack of interventions- regarding the customs of the different social actors with respect to health/disease/care-prevention processes.

Keywords : Medical Anthropology; Biomedicine; Methodology.

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