Dimensión sociocultural de la Leishmaniasis cutánea entre los cabécares de Chirripó de Turrialba, Costa Rica.

 

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Autor: Monestel Zúñiga, Pamela
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2013
Descripción:Cutaneous Leishmaniasis is a disease that affects to people in clear social exclusion, that is why the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has declared it as a neglected disease. Nevertheless, in indigenous areas this disease has a substantial importance, therefore it was propounded the need of realize a anthropological study to understand the care and the treatment for this disease. The study area was the Alto Pacuare of Chirripo community, located in Turrialba. In this research, is propose the denomination shame/papalomoyo to make the reference to the social representation formed by the indigenous people, which occurs from the knowledge of the medical culture Cabecar and from the re-appropriation and the meaning of the information about the disease given by the biomedicine Keywords:
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/6088
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/6088
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:social representation
cutáneous leishmaniasis
indigenous
representaciones sociales
leishmaniasis cutánea
indígenas