Identifier: TFG:1269
Authors: Lleonart Brusel, Sandra; Merino Tejero, Nuria
Abstract:
Knowledge about the health/illness/care process, as well as its evolution, has been known since atavistic times. The different practices or procedures inherent in the care of people have been describing different types of medicine, which are influenced by various factors, among which social and cultural. Self-care stands as the first level of attention to a health problem, which has evolved throughout history and between cultures. Folk medicine, also known as medicina popular among other varied terminology, includes such knowledge and practices on care and care characteristic of a cultural group, by definition, considered profane in the matter. The objective of this work has been to rediscover and deepen the technical knowledge and practices of self-care linked to the folk medicine of a rural population. The qualitative methodology has obtained a catalog of popular remedies and a classification of them, resulting in a set of hounds that are currently kept in the same study population, as well as the activities that have been practiced and among which some are utilized nowadays. As a conclusion to this study, it demonstrates that popular knowledge about health care is maintained today, while communications extends horizontally across the population over the years and generations, sharing the knowledge and experiences that, most of the time, remain subaltern to the biomedical model in our health system.
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