scholarly journals Medical Pluralism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venera Khalikova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Pluralism

Health and Health Care Problems Among the Kumiai of San Antonio Necua and Their Indigenous Relatives in Baja California

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jill Fleuriet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Baja California ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Medical Pluralism ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Care Problems

The rural Kumiai community of San Antonio Necua is one of the few remaining indigenous communities in Baja California, Mexico. Necuan health and health care problems are best understood through a consideration of the effects of colonialism and marginalization on indigenous groups in northern Baja California as well as a tradition of medical pluralism in Mexico. The lack of traditional healers and biomedical providers in the community, high rates of preventable or manageable illnesses, and a blend of biomedical, folk mestizo, and traditional indigenous beliefs about health and illness reflect current conditions of rural poverty and economic isolation. Descriptions of health and health care problems are based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Kumiai, their Paipai relatives, and their primary nongovernmental aid organization.

Medical pluralism in India: Discovering the convergence

AYUHOM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Rastogi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Pluralism

Drug adherence, medical pluralism, and psychopharmaceutical selfhood in postreform Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Allen L Tran ◽  
Trần Đan Tâm ◽  
Hà Thúc Dũng ◽  
Nguyễn Cúc Trâm
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The Self ◽  
Medical Pluralism ◽  
Outpatient Basis ◽  
Psychiatric Medication ◽  
Drug Adherence ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Medical Traditions

This article examines drug adherence in relation to changing patterns of medical pluralism and neoliberal reforms among psychiatric patients in postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We conducted 39 in-depth interviews and 21 follow-up interviews with individuals prescribed psychiatric medication on an outpatient basis in 2016 to identify patterns of nonadherence, which was operationalized as taking medications according to doctors’ prescriptions at the three-month follow-up interval. Patients adapt or reject their medication prescriptions due to (1) concerns about biomedical drugs and adverse drug reactions, (2) local concepts of psychic distress and selfhood, and (3) the social context of medicine taking. The dominant theoretical models of drug adherence focus on individual-level predictors. However, situating drug adherence in its political-economic context highlights the relationship between medicine and neoliberal modernity that underlies adherence. Examining the intersection of multiple medication regimens and political regimes, we argue that nonadherence is rooted in a complex layering of medical traditions and modernist projects of the self. The reception of new biomedical drugs in Vietnam is shaped by not only folk theories of illness but also a changing cultural politics of the self.

Medical pluralism in maternal health-seeking behavior of rural women in Southern Ecuador

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jessica Arnold ◽  
Julia Flint ◽  
Sharon Casapulla ◽  
Claudia Nieto ◽  
Mario J. Grijalva
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Medical Pluralism ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Health Seeking Behavior ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Seeking Behavior
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