Aproximações entre as antropologias de Cecil Helman e Clifford Geertz / Aproximaciones entre las antropologías de Cecil Helman y Clifford Geertz / Approaches between the anthropologies of Cecil Helman and Clifford Geertz

This article aims to promote conceptual exploration in the literature of Medical Anthropology or Health and Interpretative Anthropology, approaching the perspectives of Clifford JamesGeertz and Cecil Helman. The segmented three-axis approach reflects some perspectives on thekey concepts of culture and ethnography. It was also evident from the impasses generated by theacademic effort of the medical system when studying other care systems, a clear tendency to resortto generalizations, stratigraphic conception and consensus gentium, typical of colonialist ethnography, addressing the ethical commitment and self-reflexivity of the researcher as solution. It endswith an approximation between Cecil Helman's theories on causes of illness and Clifford Geertz'sknowledge and interpretation of the senses, values, behaviors and local knowledge. Therefore, webelieve that the article complements the debates in the area of ethnography, meanings of illness and health, standardized in the Anthropology of Health-disease. (AU)

Este artículo tiene como objetivo promover la exploración conceptual en la literatura deAntropología Médica o Antropología de la Salud e Interpretativa, reuniendo las perspectivas deClifford James Geertz y Cecil Helman. El enfoque segmentado de tres ejes refleja algunas tivas sobre los conceptos clave de cultura y etnografía. También fue evidente por los impases generados por el esfuerzo académico del sistema médico al estudiar otros sistemas de atención, una claratendencia a recurrir a generalizaciones, concepción estratigráfica y consensus gentium, típico de laetnografía colonialista, abordando el compromiso ético y la autorreflexividad de investigador comosoluciones. Termina con una aproximación entre las teorías de Cecil Helman sobre las causas de laenfermedad y el conocimiento e interpretación de Clifford Geertz de los sentidos, valores, comportamientos y conocimiento local. Por lo tanto, creemos que el artículo complementa los debates en el área de etnografía, sentidos de la enfermedad y salud, estandarizados en la Antropología de la Salud-enfermedad. (AU)

Este artigo tem como objetivo promover exploração conceitual na literatura de Antropologia Médica ou da Saúde e Antropologia Interpretativa, aproximando as perspectivas de CliffordJames Geertz e Cecil Helman. A abordagem segmentada em três eixos reflete algumas perspectivassobre os conceitos-chave cultura e etnografia. Evidenciou-se ainda a partir dos impasses geradospelo esforço acadêmico do sistema médico ao estudar outros sistemas de cuidado, clara tendência arecorrer a generalizações, concepção estratigráfica e consensus gentium, típicos da etnografia colonialista, abordando-se o compromisso ético e a autorreflexividade do pesquisador como soluções.Encerra-se com uma aproximação entre as teorias sobre causas do adoecimento de Cecil Helman eo conhecimento e interpretação dos sentidos, valores, condutas e saber local de Clifford Geertz. Diante disso, acreditamos que o artigo complementa os debates na área da etnografia, sentidos do adoecimento e saúde, estandardizados na Antropologia da Saúde-doença. (AU)

The WetNet: What the Oral Polio Vaccine Hypothesis Exposes about Globalized Interspecies Fluid Bonds.

The author analyzes the aftermath of Edward Hooper's suggestion that the trial of an oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the Belgian colonies of Africa engendered the pandemic form of the AIDS virus, HIV-1. In response to Hooper's book, The River (1999), the Royal Society in London held a conference to debate the origins of HIV. Examination of the quick dismissal of the OPV theory opens a space for legitimately challenging the widely held belief that the vaccine contamination question was convincingly resolved. This article interrogates the relationship between historiography and the making of scientific facts and history, suggesting that historians have been too credulous of scientists' testimony. The further result of the lack of a thorough analysis of the evidence backing the OPV hypothesis has resulted in a missed opportunity to read The River as one of the few detailed accounts of the immense social, political, technological, and interspecies infrastructure constituted by Cold War vaccine production. This biomedical infrastructure dramatically changed the geographic and interspecies mobility of viruses in ways that may be impossible to reconstruct. Yet these potential transmission routes remain crucial to acknowledge. The COVID-19 pandemic draws attention to the critical importance of studying The WetNet, a concept coined by the author to name the conceptual and material infrastructures of inter- and intraspecies fluid bonding.

Descifrando narrativas contemporáneas sobre la salud y la enfermedad: el proyecto Madrasa / Deciphering Contemporary Narratives on Health and Disease: The Madrasa Project

OBJETIVO: describir el desarrollo del proyecto Madrasa y sus resultados tras dos años de implementación. METODOLOGÍA: proyecto de innovación docente llevado a cabo con metodología de Investigación-Acción Participativa y la participación de alumnos de los grados de Enfermería, Medicina y Antropología Social y Cultural de la Universidad de Granada. Resultados principales: se realizaron 10 círculos narrativos, 2 elucidarios y 2 visitas dialogadas, contando con 19 expertos invitados. Se registraron 1203 participantes (785 alumnos) en las actividades presenciales y los círculos narrativos experimentaron 8.400 visitas desde las plataformas digitales, con una satisfacción media del 84 %. Conclusión principal: el proyecto Madrasa ha logrado instaurar una pedagogía innovadora, apoyada en la transformación digital, con enfoque multidisciplinar, que contribuye a incorporar a la enseñanza reglada de los futuros profesionales de la salud y la antropología, de una forma transversal, competencias para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en el análisis de la diversidad de narrativas que se producen en torno a la salud y la enfermedad en el mundo contemporáneo

OBJECTIVE: to describe the development of the Madrasa project and its results after two years of implementation. METHODOLOGY: teaching innovation project carried out with Participatory Action Research methodology and the participation of students from the Nursing, Medicine and Social and Cultural Anthropology degrees at the University of Granada. MAIN RESULTS: 10 narrative circles, 2 elucidations and 2 dialogued visits were carried out, with 19 invited experts. 1203 participants (785 students) were registered in the face-to-face activities and the narrative circles experienced 8,400 visits from digital platforms, with an average satisfaction of 84%. Main conclusion: the Madrasa project has managed to establish an innovative pedagogy, supported by digital transformation, with a multidisciplinary approach, which contributes to incorporating into the regulated education of future health and anthropology professionals, in a transversal way, competences for the development of critical thinking in the analysis of the diversity of narratives that occur around health and disease in the contemporary world

Por una antropología del recuerdo. Historia oral de los cuidados durante la Guerra Civil / For an anthropology of memory. Oral history of care during the Civil War

OBJETIVO: reconstruir las condiciones sociosanitarias experimentadas durante la Guerra Civil a través de la historia oral de sus últimos testigos vivos, los nonagenarios que entonces eran niños. METODOLOGÍA: se empleó un enfoque fenomenológico utilizando como diseño de investigación los testimonios focalizados recogidos a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a seis nonagenarios que durante la Guerra Civil presentaban entre seis y diez años. Resultados principales: los informantes hacen una reconstrucción oral del recuerdo centrado en aspectos como las experiencias traumáticas (bombardeos, reclutamientos, ejecuciones), las condiciones sociales (hambre, refugiados, educación), el cuidado, y la vivencia de la infancia. Conclusión principal: los relatos muestran las dramáticas situaciones vividas durante este complicado periodo de la historia de España, experiencias que, sin embargo, no lograron robar totalmente la infancia a aquellos niños que ahora son nonagenarios

OBJECTIVE: the objective of the article has been to reconstruct the social and health conditions experienced during the Civil War through the oral history of its last living witnesses, the nonagenarians who were then children. METHODS: A phenomenological approach was used, using as research design the focused testimonies collected through semi-structured interviews carried out with six nonagenarians who were between six and ten years old during the Civil War. RESULTS: the informants make an oral reconstruction of the memory focused on aspects such as traumatic experiences (bombings, recruits, executions), social conditions (hunger, refugees, education), care, and the experience of childhood. CONCLUSIONS: the stories show the dramatic situations experienced during this complicated period in the history of Spain, experiences that, however, did not completely steal childhood from those children who are now in their early thirties

[Medical anthropology in Latin America, 1990-2015: A strictly provisional review]. / Antropología médica en América Latina 1990-2015: Una revisión estrictamente provisional.

The article presents a provisional examination of the production of Latin American medical anthropology, especially from Mexico, and to a lesser degree Brazil, from 1990 to 2015, in an attempt to highlight the discipline's principal contributions, orientations and objectives, but also to pose critiques and doubts, especially with respect to the omission of the study of serious collective health problems and processes. The article attempts to put into evidence the importance of the discipline not only for anthropology, but also for biomedicine, suggesting the need for complementation beyond the differences and incompatibilities that exist regarding, for example, the use of qualitative techniques, and interventions -or lack of interventions- regarding the customs of the different social actors with respect to health/disease/care-prevention processes.

Se presenta una aproximación provisional sobre lo producido por la antropología médica en América Latina, especialmente, en México y, en menor medida, en Brasil, entre 1990 y 2015, tratando de señalar sus principales aportes, orientaciones y objetivos, pero también planteando críticas y algunas dudas referidas, especialmente, a la omisión del estudio de graves procesos y problemas de salud colectiva. En el artículo se trata de poner en evidencia la importancia de esta disciplina no solo para la antropología, sino también para la biomedicina, planteando la necesidad de complementación, más allá de las diferencias e incompatibilidades que existen respecto, por ejemplo, del uso de las técnicas cualitativas o de las intervenciones y no intervenciones sobre los "usos y costumbres" de los diferentes actores sociales referidos a los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención-prevención.

Burkholderia pseudomallei distribution in Australasia is linked to paleogeographic and anthropogenic history.

Burkholderia pseudomallei is the environmental bacillus that causes melioidosis; a disease clinically significant in Australia and Southeast Asia but emerging in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the globe. Previous studies have placed the ancestral population of the organism in Australia with a single lineage disseminated to Southeast Asia. We have previously characterized B. pseudomallei isolates from New Guinea and the Torres Strait archipelago; remote regions that share paleogeographic ties with Australia. These studies identified regional biogeographical boundaries. In this study, we utilize whole-genome sequencing to reconstruct ancient evolutionary relationships and ascertain correlations between paleogeography and present-day distribution of this bacterium in Australasia. Our results indicate that B. pseudomallei from New Guinea fall into a single clade within the Australian population. Furthermore, clades from New Guinea are region-specific; an observation possibly linked to limited recent anthropogenic influence in comparison to mainland Australia and Southeast Asia. Isolates from the Torres Strait archipelago were distinct yet scattered among those from mainland Australia. These results provide evidence that the New Guinean and Torres Strait lineages may be remnants of an ancient portion of the Australian population. Rising sea levels isolated New Guinea and the Torres Strait Islands from each other and the Australian mainland, and may have allowed long-term isolated evolution of these lineages, providing support for a theory of microbial biogeography congruent with that of macro flora and fauna. Moreover, these findings indicate that contemporary microbial biogeography theories should consider recent and ongoing impacts of globalisation and human activity.

Antropología médica en América Latina 1990-2015: Una revisión estrictamente provisional / Medical anthropology in Latin America, 1990-2015: A strictly provisional review

RESUMEN Se presenta una aproximación provisional sobre lo producido por la antropología médica en América Latina, especialmente, en México y, en menor medida, en Brasil, entre 1990 y 2015, tratando de señalar sus principales aportes, orientaciones y objetivos, pero también planteando críticas y algunas dudas referidas, especialmente, a la omisión del estudio de graves procesos y problemas de salud colectiva. En el artículo se trata de poner en evidencia la importancia de esta disciplina no solo para la antropología, sino también para la biomedicina, planteando la necesidad de complementación, más allá de las diferencias e incompatibilidades que existen respecto, por ejemplo, del uso de las técnicas cualitativas o de las intervenciones y no intervenciones sobre los "usos y costumbres" de los diferentes actores sociales referidos a los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención-prevención.

ABSTRACT The article presents a provisional examination of the production of Latin American medical anthropology, especially from Mexico, and to a lesser degree Brazil, from 1990 to 2015, in an attempt to highlight the discipline's principal contributions, orientations and objectives, but also to pose critiques and doubts, especially with respect to the omission of the study of serious collective health problems and processes. The article attempts to put into evidence the importance of the discipline not only for anthropology, but also for biomedicine, suggesting the need for complementation beyond the differences and incompatibilities that exist regarding, for example, the use of qualitative techniques, and interventions -or lack of interventions- regarding the customs of the different social actors with respect to health/disease/care-prevention processes.

Henri Collomb and the emergence of a psychiatry open to otherness through interdisciplinary dialogue in post-independence Dakar.

During decolonization, Henri Collomb was appointed to the first Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Dakar. Using a neuropsychiatric approach, he quickly made significant advances in the field, despite the colonial era's poor legacy of assistance facilities for mentally ill people. Through alliances with professors and researchers from the university Departments of Psychology and Sociology, an original interdisciplinary dialogue was set up to build up a research team which would develop rich and varied activities in the fields of transcultural psychiatry, medical anthropology and psychoanalytic anthropology. The methodological and theoretical contributions of such an approach are well illustrated in the book Œdipe africain by M-C and E Ortigues and in the journal founded in 1965, Psychopathologie africaine.

Julio Tello as a medical anthropologist: assessing the antiquity of syphilis in ancient Peru.

This paper explores the methods used by Julio Tello to address the antiquity of syphilis in ancient Peru, examining his thesis La antigüedad de la sífilis en el antiguo Perú to understand the logic behind the procedures he used to test his hypothesis. The contention presented here is that despite being a medical thesis, his text can actually be considered an exploration of the origins of syphilis using a truly anthropological method, making Tello a pioneer in the subfield of medical anthropology in the Andes.

Julio Tello as a medical anthropologist: assessing the antiquity of syphilis in ancient Peru / Julio Tello como antropólogo médico: examinando la antigüedad de la sífilis en el antiguo Perú

Abstract This paper explores the methods used by Julio Tello to address the antiquity of syphilis in ancient Peru, examining his thesis La antigüedad de la sífilis en el antiguo Perú to understand the logic behind the procedures he used to test his hypothesis. The contention presented here is that despite being a medical thesis, his text can actually be considered an exploration of the origins of syphilis using a truly anthropological method, making Tello a pioneer in the subfield of medical anthropology in the Andes.

Resumen Este artículo analiza el método utilizado por Julio Tello en la investigación de la antigüedad de la sífilis en el antiguo Perú, examinando su tesis La antigüedad de la sífilis en el antiguo Perú, con la finalidad de comprender la lógica detrás de los procedimientos utilizados para evaluar su hipótesis. A pesar de ser una tesis en medicina, el trabajo de Tello puede ser considerado como un trabajo en el cual se utiliza el método antropológico en la evaluación del origen de la sífilis, convirtiéndose Tello en un pionero en el campo de la antropología médica en los Andes.

De la bilis negra a la escolástica: la Celestina como arquetipo de la melancolía maléfica en el Siglo de Oro / From dark humor to scholastic: Celestine as archetype of malefic melancholy in Spanish Golden Age

La tensión dialéctica entre cuerpo y espíritu, derivada de su propia naturaleza dual, ha articulado el discurso de la Melancolía desde sus orígenes. Como resultado encontramos distintos arquetipos bioculturales de melancolía, nacidos de la urdimbre secular entre el empirismo y las creencias del imaginario colectivo de cada sociedad. El análisis de los rasgos psicológicos y la fisonomía de la Celestina, entendida como la representación literaria de la melancolía maléfica, nos permite reconstruir el itinerario de interrelaciones entre humoralismo y escolástica medieval que moldearon esta particular "encarnación" de la misma

Dialectical tension between body and mind have articulated the discourse of melancholy since its origin. As result melancholic archetypes are the result of secular conjunction between empirical and faith-based beliefs on contemporary collective subconscious. The analysis of Celestine spiritual and physical aspects, read as a literary representation of malefic melancholy, allow us to recover the underlying interweave between humoralism and mediaeval scholastic that shaped this specific melancholic 'embodiment'

The field of medical anthropology in Social Science & Medicine.

Conceptually and methodologically, medical anthropology is well-positioned to support a "big-tent" research agenda on health and society. It fosters approaches to social and structural models of health and wellbeing in ways that are critically reflective, cross-cultural, people-centered, and transdisciplinary. In this review article, we showcase these four main characteristics of the field, as featured in Social Science & Medicine over the last fifty years, highlighting their relevance for an international and interdisciplinary readership. First, the practice of critical inquiry in ethnographies of health offers a deep appreciation of sociocultural viewpoints when recording and interpreting lived experiences and contested social worlds. Second, medical anthropology champions cross-cultural breadth: it makes explicit local understandings of health experiences across different settings, using a fine-grained, comparative approach to develop a stronger global platform for the analysis of health-related concerns. Third, in offering people-centered views of the world, anthropology extends the reach of critical enquiry to the lived experiences of hard-to-reach population groups, their structural vulnerabilities, and social agency. Finally, in developing research at the nexus of cultures, societies, biologies, and health, medical anthropologists generate new, transdisciplinary conversations on the body, mind, person, community, environment, prevention, and therapy. As featured in this journal, scholarly contributions in medical anthropology seek to debate human health and wellbeing from many angles, pushing forward methodology, social theory, and health-related practice.

[Sudden death in Versailles: A review of a cardiovascular treatrise by Dionis (1710)]. / Les morts subites à Versailles : une relecture du traité de Dionis (1710).

In 1710, the surgeon Pierre Dionis publishes a Dissertation on sudden death. Echoing and expanding the work of his Roman colleague Jean Marie Lancisi, he describes and analyzes dozens of cases of sudden death observed by him. A large number of cases was followed by autopsies allowing clinicopathological confrontation. Are proposed causes of death (pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, hemorrhagic stroke, arterial rupture, etc.), pathophysiological mechanisms based on the ancient theory of humors, and preventive actions to avoid these unexpected deaths. In this article, we oppose these old data to those of current literature.

[Medical education and medical anthropology in Europe: the cases of Italy and Spain]. / Educación sanitaria y antropología médica en Europa: los casos de Italia y España.

The aim of this article is to compare the development of health education in Italy and Spain from the point of view of the role played by medical anthropology in both countries. The context is provided by the changes in the concept of health education advocated by the UN technical agencies, especially the World Health Organization and Unesco, during the second half of the twentieth century. Despite their many similarities, Italy and Spain underwent different political evolutions over the last century. Therefore, it is interesting to compare both cases and the influence the social sciences had in health education initiatives. In order to assess the role of medical anthropology, the 1958 launch and the development of the Centro Sperimentale per l'Educazione Sanitaria (Perugia, Italy), which was at the forefront of health education in Europe until the 1990s, was reconstructed through oral sources. After a brief description of the scant initiatives regarding health education existing in the Spain of the dictatorship, the influence of the Perusine anthropologists on Spanish health education during the democratic transition is evaluated.

[Literary, biographic and autoethnographic contributions in Spanish medical anthropology: the case of Catalonia]. / Contribuciones literarias, biográficas y autoetnográficas a la antropología médica en España: el caso catalán.

The autoethnographic method has been an important contribution to the development of medical anthropology in Spain. This article first reviews and explores documents published before 1980 that are usually classified as literature and autobiography and are linked to the health-disease-care process, a paradigmatic example of which is Ramona Via's diary Com neixen els Catalans [How Catalans are born] published in 1972. The second part of the article is focused on contributions carried out since the 1980s using the concept of autoethnography, which have as their object the body, health and illness based on a subjective ethnographic experience. This period, unlike the first, is characterized by the emergence of anthropologist authors who have promoted the development of this method, legitimized by the Tarragona School and substantialized in the first Spanish conference of autoethnography in 2015.

Contribuciones literarias, biográficas y autoetnográficas a la antropología médica en España: el caso catalán / Literary, biographic and autoethnographic contributions in Spanish medical anthropology: the case of Catalonia

RESUMEN El método autoetnográfico ha sido un importante aporte al desarrollo de la antropología médica en España. En la primera parte de este artículo, se exploran y revisan documentos habitualmente clasificados como literatura y autobiografías, vinculados a los procesos de salud-enfermedad-atención y publicados antes de 1980, cuyo paradigma es el diario de Ramona Via, Com neixen els Catalans, publicado en 1972. La segunda parte se enfoca en las contribuciones desarrolladas desde la década de 1980, a partir del concepto de autoetnografía, cuyos objetos son el cuerpo, la salud y la enfermedad a partir de la experiencia etnográfica subjetiva. A diferencia del primer periodo, éste se caracteriza por el surgimiento de autores antropólogos que han impulsado el desarrollo de este método legitimado desde la escuela de Tarragona, y concretizado en el primer congreso español de autoetnografía en 2015.

ABSTRACT The autoethnographic method has been an important contribution to the development of medical anthropology in Spain. This article first reviews and explores documents published before 1980 that are usually classified as literature and autobiography and are linked to the health-disease-care process, a paradigmatic example of which is Ramona Via's diary Com neixen els Catalans [How Catalans are born] published in 1972. The second part of the article is focused on contributions carried out since the 1980s using the concept of autoethnography, which have as their object the body, health and illness based on a subjective ethnographic experience. This period, unlike the first, is characterized by the emergence of anthropologist authors who have promoted the development of this method, legitimized by the Tarragona School and substantialized in the first Spanish conference of autoethnography in 2015.