Author:

• Esther Jean Langdon - Langdon, E. J. - Florianópolis - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia, Universidade Federal de Antropologia; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - <estherjeanbr@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5883-3000

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Abstract:

In an effort to examine the development of anthropological paradigms and their dialogue with medicine, the discussion is organized by two general, but not exclusive, themes: that which focuses on health and disease as experience and sociocultural construction and that which examines health from an interactional and political perspective. For the former, I focus on North American and French theories that are reflected in anthropological dialogue in Brazil. For the latter theme, that of the political, the discussion originates in the dialogue among anthropologists in Latin America who have been developing models in order to contribute to an interdisciplinary approach necessary for health policies and intervention in health. The concepts of practices in selfcare and intermedicality, among others, are explored for the contribution of anthropology to public policies in health. These anthropologists have been arguing that health practices must be understood through the notions of autonomy, collectivity, agency and praxis in opposition to the notions of the biomedical perspective characterized as universalist, biological, individualist and a-historical.

Keywords:

anthropology of health theory practices of selfcare autonomy public policy anthropologies of the South

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