Biomedicine as a cultural system

Authors

  • Pedro Pereira Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v19.10

Abstract

With the social valorization conferred on biomedicine in today’s Western societies, we could almost be led to believe that biomedicine has always existed or that before and beyond it there was no medicine. However, in all societies people are mobilizing strategies to combat disease and promote health. Thus, in the present text, it is intended to maintain that biomedicine is part of the cultural landscape where it develops and, consequently, is not innocuous to cultural dynamics. In addition to describing the emergency conditions of biomedicine, a critical approach will be developed, based on four fundamental axes: the etiology of the disease, the place of the disease, the therapy of the disease and the science of biomedicine. This argumentative line concludes with the affirmation of biomedicine as a cultural system.

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Author Biography

  • Pedro Pereira, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

    Pedri Pereira

    Professor Adjunto - Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo 

    Doutor em Antropologia

Published

2019-06-23

How to Cite

Pereira, P. (2019). Biomedicine as a cultural system. Antropología Experimental, 19. https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v19.10