title: [Surgery and Amerindian peoples: an intercultural challenge].
abstract: Many cultures have performed the cutting and excision of the human anatomy under contexts that we consider magical or religious; nevertheless, the will to offer recovery to people in their diseases, progressively transformed these cuttings into procedures aimed at the extraction of their causes, known as surgery. However, that didn't imply a replacement but a different sight of how to provide health, that is why there are still gaps between that "symbolic surgery" and the one practiced in occident. In this review we offer a description of the vision of diverse communities regarding surgery, and some anecdotes of how it has influenced, modified or rejected the application of modern surgery.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Humanidades de Toledo, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, España. gerardo.fjuarez@uclm.es
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fernández-Juárez
mesh_terms: D054521:Cultural Competency; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D010568:Peru