TRWANIE, TRANSFORMACJA I AWANS LECZNICTWA TUBYLCZEGO W KRAJACH AMERYKI ANDYJSKIEJ
PERSISTANCE, TRANSFORMATION, AND ADVANCEMENT OF NATIVE HEALING IN THE ANDEAN COUNTRIES

Summary/Abstract: Native healing practices have gained considerable recognition in the Andean countries of South America, undergoing professionalization and institutionalization. Thanks to the acceptance of multiculturalism, multi-ethnicity and legal recognition of diversity, traditional shamanistic, herbal, healing, and magical practices have been upgraded and transformed into indigenous medicine, accepted by mainstream society and the public health service. In this way, the indigenous healing traditions and concepts of disease and health also have successfully entered cities, hospitals, clinics, colleges and pharmacies, gaining wide recognition in an urban social environment. As a result, a specific dualism of medical practices emerged, consisting of the complementary coexistence of the popular medicine sector with strong indigenous roots and the academic sector of biomedicine aimed mostly at the wealthier social classes.

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