Towards new models of health care: the integration of non-conventional medicines

Authors

  • Cristina Guadalupe Carrillo Sánchez Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
  • Leonardo Ernesto Márquez Mireles Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35669/rcys.2023.13.e308

Keywords:

complementary therapies, integrative medicine, systems integration, medical pluralism.

Abstract

There is a demand for a diversity of therapeutic systems and models that are shown to be subordinate to the hegemonic medical model, as the guiding axis of efficacy and safety. In most international discourses and research, a dispute arises between two systems: the biomedical or conventional and the so-called non-conventional medicines. This article aims to discuss the terms related to the so-called non-conventional medicines and the implications of establishing biomedical practices as a validation mechanism in the articulation of non-conventional medicines in the health system. For this purpose, the study is based on documentary sources. Metasearch engines and generic search engines such as Google Scholar were consulted for the exploration of original and review articles prepared in the period 2002 and 2020 in Spanish, English and Portuguese. In the first place, the incorporation of non-conventional medicines in the discourses of the WHO and PAHO as relevant actors that align national policies on non-conventional medicines is described; secondly, a discussion is presented on the main differences in the use of terms related to non-conventional medicines: alternative, complementary, and integrative and, finally, the implications of establishing the methodological criteria of biomedicine as a validation element are exposed. of non-conventional medicines

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Author Biographies

Cristina Guadalupe Carrillo Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Master in Health Sociology. PhD student in Latin American Studies in Territory, Society and Culture. She currently studies health policy around traditional medicine, complementary alternative medicine, and integrative medicine.

Leonardo Ernesto Márquez Mireles, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Full-time Research Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí. Researcher in cultural ecological studies on peasants, rural development, food anthropology.

Orcid ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-8156

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=oHxOIUsAAAAJ&hl=es

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2023-01-02

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Carrillo Sánchez, Cristina Guadalupe, and Leonardo Ernesto Márquez Mireles. 2023. “Towards new models of health care: the integration of non-conventional medicines”. Revista de Comunicación y Salud 13 (January):22-41. https://doi.org/10.35669/rcys.2023.13.e308.

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