Saberes y prácticas

Knowledge and practices: diverse perspectives on health and disease processes presents the result of nine investigations developed by the Health, Medical Knowledge and Society area of the Research Center on Social Dynamics, attached to the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University Colombia Externship.

 The titles of these investigations -Construction of dialogues around medical knowledge: a field of tensions and opportunities; The body and health in the acculturation process of the Ikus: owners or subjects? Approach to the knowledge and social processes of traditional medicine in San Basilio de Palenque; Process of constructing the ruling of non-imputability due to mental illness; Processes of cultural construction of the disease from the anomalous body in La Tolita-Tumaco; Writing between the cofones: the feminine regulation of women's health care and the protection of taitas; Leisbmaniasis, a disease of wars and conflicts; False illness.

The hidden, the surreptitious and the apparent in narratives and itineraries of illness; and Knowing how to heal, knowing how to live: meeting with indigenous doctors of Putumayo - reflect a rich diversity of topics and ways of approaching. At the same time, they account for an opening in the generation of knowledge that is situated in the deconstruction of the borders between social sciences, human sciences, health sciences and other medical knowledge.

Although the research presented embody different perspectives and thematic fields of inquiry, they all contribute to a common search: to recognize the ineluctable connection of health-disease dynamics with different cultural, political and social processes.