Abstract

GREATHOUSE-AMADOR, Louise M.; CONTRERAS-JUAREZ, Adriana  and  PRECIADO-LLOYD, Patricia. Teaching Cultural Meanings and Representations: Why It is Important for the Health of Migrant Workers. Folios [online]. 2019, n.49, pp.123-135. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.49-9399.

This transdisciplinary work presents the difficulties faced by legal or illegal Spanish speakers living in other countries when requesting medical attention. Taking into account that both the meanings of words and the cultural representations of emotions are very important to provide adequate medical attention, this paper addresses the emotion of anger and how it is related to health and illness. Accordingly, language itself, the cultural background of this emotion, and its impact on health are studied through a journey through contemporary medicine and its Hippocratic background, indigenous medicine, and modern medicine. For the population that took part in this study, the social representation of anger is linked to body heat balance, and therefore, from the point of view of men and women, some results are presented on the link between anger and health and disease. They conclude that there is a need for a cultural understanding of the diseases of Mexican people through the opportunities in the daily life of those who provide medical care.

Keywords : health; disease; Hispanic speakers; medical care; culture; anger.

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