La santé interculturelle, outil de domination ? L’expérience des sages-femmes traditionnelles mexicaines
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Mexico with traditional indigenous midwives, I offer a critical analysis of Mexican intercultural health policies through the example of the Chiapas intercultural hospital. Designed to reconcile biomedicine and traditional medicine, in practice the hospi...
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| description | Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Mexico with traditional indigenous midwives, I offer a critical analysis of Mexican intercultural health policies through the example of the Chiapas intercultural hospital. Designed to reconcile biomedicine and traditional medicine, in practice the hospital resembles an empty shell, where traditional midwives are invited to practice without receiving any salary, under the biomedical gaze. Far from promoting indigenous medical knowledge, the intercultural hospital is both a place and a health policy that reproduce structural violence and racist bias against traditional midwives. This experiment highlights the need for a critical approach to interculturality, even more pressing as younger, professional midwives are hired to replace traditional midwives, who are pushed towards the margins of the Mexican healthcare system. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3e3f9d8241634a84874441bb478bd4e12025-08-20T03:07:24ZfraAssociation Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la SantéAnthropologie & Santé2111-50282022-02-012410.4000/anthropologiesante.10628La santé interculturelle, outil de domination ? L’expérience des sages-femmes traditionnelles mexicainesMounia El KotniDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Mexico with traditional indigenous midwives, I offer a critical analysis of Mexican intercultural health policies through the example of the Chiapas intercultural hospital. Designed to reconcile biomedicine and traditional medicine, in practice the hospital resembles an empty shell, where traditional midwives are invited to practice without receiving any salary, under the biomedical gaze. Far from promoting indigenous medical knowledge, the intercultural hospital is both a place and a health policy that reproduce structural violence and racist bias against traditional midwives. This experiment highlights the need for a critical approach to interculturality, even more pressing as younger, professional midwives are hired to replace traditional midwives, who are pushed towards the margins of the Mexican healthcare system.https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/10628traditional medicinehealthcare accesschildbirthintercultural policyMexico |
| spellingShingle | Mounia El Kotni La santé interculturelle, outil de domination ? L’expérience des sages-femmes traditionnelles mexicaines Anthropologie & Santé traditional medicine healthcare access childbirth intercultural policy Mexico |
| title | La santé interculturelle, outil de domination ? L’expérience des sages-femmes traditionnelles mexicaines |
| title_full | La santé interculturelle, outil de domination ? L’expérience des sages-femmes traditionnelles mexicaines |
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| title_short | La santé interculturelle, outil de domination ? L’expérience des sages-femmes traditionnelles mexicaines |
| title_sort | la sante interculturelle outil de domination l experience des sages femmes traditionnelles mexicaines |
| topic | traditional medicine healthcare access childbirth intercultural policy Mexico |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/10628 |
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