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Antipoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología

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Abstract

MORENO LEGUIZAMON, Carlos J. SALUD-ENFERMEDAD Y CUERPO-MENTE EN LA MEDICINA AYURVÉDICA DE LA INDIA Y EN LA BIOMEDICINA CONTEMPORÁNEA. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2006, n.3, pp.91-121. ISSN 1900-5407.

This article discusses the categories of health-illness and body-mind in the ayurvedic medicine of india and the contemporary biomedicine in as much as socio-cultural institutions and knowledge systems. For this, some socio-cultural, historic, linguistic, political and economic dimensions of each medical system are addressed, looking beyond their construction as merely scientific-technical fields. Thus, what in the ayurvedic medicine is constructed as a relationship between a physical body and "subtle" body, in biomedicine is constructed as body-mind. And increasingly with the emphasis on brain function the old body-mind dichotomy is becoming body-brain. Similarly, while ayurvedic medicine focuses on the personal and the emotional, biomedicine does it in body and illness.

Keywords : Ayurveda; Biomedicine; Medical Systems; Health-Illness; Body-Mind.

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