Abstract

BORDES, Mariana. Listen to your body and believe in that. Explorations of the notion of self-reflection in the context of alternative medicine (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2014, n.19, pp.143-167. ISSN 1900-5407.

The article aims to analyze one aspect of the logic of health care that is outlined in the universe of alternative, non-conventional, or complementary and alternative medicine, as the World Health Organization denominates them (WHO, 2002); we refer to the notion of self-reflection and self-knowledge as one of the dimensions of the therapeutic efficacy in a broad sense. It is worth noting that that this work is based on the research for a doctoral dissertation focused on analyzing the construction of therapeutic meanings within the framework of a particular form of alternative medicine (reflexology), which was carried out from a qualitative sociological perspective.

Keywords : Alternative therapies; self-reflection; therapeutic work; Buenos Aires.

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