A revision of the studies around gastrointestinal diseases. In search of new alternatives for the analysis of the health-disease processes
Anahi Sy
Licenciada en Antropología. Doctora en Ciencias Naturales. Docente de la Cátedra Etnografía I, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Argentina
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4 April 2009
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Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a critical revision of different approaches to the study of gastrointestinal pathologies, focusing on intestinal parasitosis in particular. We studied the way in which they have been built and defined, the way in which this has affected their treatment and we explored the possibility of trying new alternatives for their treatment.
Our interest in the topic arises from the results obtained in different stages of interdisciplinary investigation developed in two Guaraní communities Mbya in Misiones Province, Argentina. In this context, we observed that the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases, parasitic in particular, does not respond to a limited group of causes but it presents multiple causes of a diverse nature. In this sense, we analyze the necessity of identifying and assessing sociocultural aspects which are not considered in the traditional epidemiological studies, in order to recognize the biocultural conditions under which theses infections may prosper.
ISSN 1669-2381 (print version) | ISSN 1851-8265 (electronic version) | 2250-5334 (english edition)
Editor in chief: Viviana Martinovich
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Lanús
Rector: Daniel Rodriguez Bozzani
29 de Septiembre 3901, Remedios de Escalada, Lanús (B1826GLC), Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina