%0 Journal Article
%T Cirug¨ªa y pueblos Amerindios: un reto intercultural
%A Fern¨¢ndez-Ju¨¢rez
%A Gerardo
%J Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud P¨²blica
%D 2010
%I Instituto Nacional de Salud
%R 10.1590/S1726-46342010000100015
%X 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.
%K cultural competency
%K history of medicine
%K surgery
%K cultural diversity
%K traditional medicine.
%U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1726-46342010000100015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en