title: [AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MEDICAL PRACTICES AND KNOWELEDGE IN THE NAHUA CONTEST ( NAUPAN, PUEBLA, MEXICO)].
abstract: In the last thirty years, the improvement of biomedical acculturate had influenced the medical tradition of Nauha, in souther-eastern Mexico. The study analyses how the constituent elements of biomedical tradition are incorporated into new rhetorical, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, mixed with languages and symbols typical of local tradition.
authors: Silvia
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authors: Iorio
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003150:Community Health Workers; D003469:Culture; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification; D004644:Emotions; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D029001:Herbal Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology; D007802:Language; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008800:Mexico; D008954:Models, Biological; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic