Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:1458

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1458

Authors:
Mosquera Saravia, María Teresa de Jesús

Abstract:
The attention to sufferings and diseases by midwives in Guatemala, it singles out because these, used knowledges, practices and representations of maya-achí raigambre, acquired by means of oral tradition, but also the midwives used bio-medicine knowledges and therapies acquired in training courses that official health sector imparts.The pluralistic behavior of the midwife was the thesis object of study. How did the midwives get into the bio-medic sphere or How did she take from reference her maya-achí therapies to treat a disease? or How does the midwife make an articulation between these spheres?To understand midwife profession, it was necessary to visualize that the knowledges are acquired by daily life with her extense family. That way of oral tradition learning stablishes in the 'matrilineal' way. The future midwife learns to 'sobar', cutting the umbilical cord, a therapy called 'sahumerio', etc. from that coexistence which stablishes in her family.However, it was also necessary to stablish the itinerary of disease reported by the community. In this one, midwife visualize herself like a traditional therapist who looks after to treat the sufferings of maya-achí rationality, the said sufferings in the logic of family mothers, classify and interpret in a different way of the diseases treated by medics and nurses.Finally, the pluralistic behavior of the midwife looks for to find efficacy from the pharmacological and symbolical nature in the attention of diseases, the said behavior have a relation with the kind of suffering treated. However, other sufferings, attended by midwives, require a symbolical efficacy, more than processes of pharmacological efficacy for its relief.