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Published on: March 24, 2023
[Surgery and Amerindian peoples: an intercultural challenge]
1Facultad de Humanidades de Toledo, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, España. gerardo.fjuarez@uclm.es
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.
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