Pandemic and self-care: the denial and subalternization of popular knowledge
The COVID-19 pandemic once again demonstrated the hegemony of biomedicine, not only with regards to Chinese, Hindu and Japanese academic medicines, as well as traditional Latin American medicines, but also related to the processes of self-care, despite the fact that these were the main preventive me...
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I15-R207-article-1412022-11-22T23:28:09Z Pandemic and self-care: the denial and subalternization of popular knowledge Pandemia y autoatención: la negación y subalternización de los saberes populares Menéndez, Eduardo L. autoatención biomedicina pandemia hegemonía self-care biomedicine pandemic hegemony The COVID-19 pandemic once again demonstrated the hegemony of biomedicine, not only with regards to Chinese, Hindu and Japanese academic medicines, as well as traditional Latin American medicines, but also related to the processes of self-care, despite the fact that these were the main preventive mechanisms used by subjects and microgroups to confront the Covid-19 pandemic until the introduction of the coronavirus vaccine. Moreover, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization and the medical/health systems of countries worldwide, acted in such a way that self-attention appeared as a biomedical technical mechanism rather than being considered as a process developed and applied by the population. Therefore in this paper I describe and analyze the concept of self-care, differentiating it from the biomedical concept of self-care, trying to show the mechanisms of hegemony that biomedicine develops to obscure the true self-care actors, as well as their subalternization and their need to assume the decisive role that they have played in either positive and negative terms. La pandemia de COVID-19 evidenció una vez más la hegemonía de la biomedicina, y no solo respecto de las medicinas académicas china, hindú y japonesa, así como de las medicinas tradicionales latinoamericanas, sino también respecto de los procesos de autoatención, pese a que éstos fueron los principales mecanismos preventivos que utilizaron los sujetos y microgrupos para enfrentar la pandemia de Covid-19 hasta que se comenzó a aplicar la vacuna contra el coronavirus. Más aún, la Organización Mundial de la Salud, la Organización Panamericana de la Salud y los aparatos médico/sanitarios de los países a nivel mundial, actuaron de tal manera que la autoatención apareció como un mecanismo técnico biomédico en lugar de ser considerado como un proceso desarrollado y aplicado por la población. Por lo que en este texto describo y analizo el concepto de autoatención, diferenciándolo del concepto biomédico de autocuidado, tratando de evidenciar los mecanismos de hegemonía que desarrolla la biomedicina para opacar los verdaderos actores de la autoatención, así como la subalternización de los mismos y la necesidad de que estos asuman el papel decisivo que han cumplido tanto en términos positivos como negativos. Escuela de Antropología - FHyA 2021-06-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/menendez 10.35305/revistadeantropologia.v0iXXVIII.137 Revista de la Escuela de Antropología; Núm. XXVIII (2021): enero-junio 2618-2998 1852-1576 spa https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/menendez/178 https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/menendez/179 Derechos de autor 2021 Eduardo L. Menéndez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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The COVID-19 pandemic once again demonstrated the hegemony of biomedicine, not only with regards to Chinese, Hindu and Japanese academic medicines, as well as traditional Latin American medicines, but also related to the processes of self-care, despite the fact that these were the main preventive mechanisms used by subjects and microgroups to confront the Covid-19 pandemic until the introduction of the coronavirus vaccine. Moreover, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization and the medical/health systems of countries worldwide, acted in such a way that self-attention appeared as a biomedical technical mechanism rather than being considered as a process developed and applied by the population. Therefore in this paper I describe and analyze the concept of self-care, differentiating it from the biomedical concept of self-care, trying to show the mechanisms of hegemony that biomedicine develops to obscure the true self-care actors, as well as their subalternization and their need to assume the decisive role that they have played in either positive and negative terms. |
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