Relaciones interétnicas y prácticas de atención de la salud en el Chaco Salteño

In this paper I examine in what terms the health conditions of indigenous communities in the department of San Martín (Salta, Argentina), are problematized within the health sector. Specifically I examine how, and by which itineraries, indigenous become visible within the hospital structure, considering the medical and care circuits based on the concept of “cultural adequacy”. Analysing these socio-health initiatives it is possible to understand in what sense the “let it live” principle raised by the public health system is in fact experienced by the natives assisted as a disguised form of “leting them die”. Reconstructing the relations at stake and their conditioning factors, the analysis here presented enables the understanding of the frictions arisen when the right to health is hegemonically reduced to the access to medical care.

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