Domesticating Differences: Medical Pluralism, Epistemic Hierarchies, and the Politics of Knowledge in Global Health

A Persistent ParadoxThe current global health landscape is characterised by a significant crisis of representation, in which the specific medical realities of the Global South are frequently obscured by the universalising tendencies of dominant academic discourses. In this context, medical pluralis...

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Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Liu, Xu, Valoncini, Matteo
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Γλώσσα:Anglais
Έκδοση: Archivio antropologico mediterraneo 2026
Διαθέσιμο Online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Περίληψη:A Persistent ParadoxThe current global health landscape is characterised by a significant crisis of representation, in which the specific medical realities of the Global South are frequently obscured by the universalising tendencies of dominant academic discourses. In this context, medical pluralism has long held an ambivalent place in medical anthropology. Conceived in the late 1970s as a corrective to ethnocentric accounts of healing, the framework aimed to integrate multiple medical tradi...