Abstract

PEREIRA, Ondina Pena. The doctor and the healer: the pedagogy of the gift IN the health universe. Rev. bras. crescimento desenvolv. hum. [online]. 2007, vol.17, n.3, pp. 114-122. ISSN 0104-1282.

This article aims to analyze - based on the experience of Valentin, a healer from the periphery of Brasília - the contemporary tensions between the modern and the traditional, detected in the universe of exchanges between biomedicine knowledge and the traditional knowledge of popular communities about health. The study is supported by Marcel Mauss' theory of the gift and Jean Baudrillard's symbolic exchanges.

Keywords : Health; Gift; Symbolic Exchange; Modern; Traditional.

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