Abstract

REYES SANCHEZ, GIOVANNA LISET. THE BODY AS BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNITY: A PREMISE FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2009, vol.45, n.1, pp.203-224. ISSN 0486-6525.

This article reflects on the construction of the human body with respect to sexual and reproductive health. It presents an epistemological discussion on the importance for today’s medicine to understand the body from a non reductionist or homogeneous perspective, in order to formulate renewed health interventions in agreement with the cultural values and environmental conditions of the territories inhabited by the beneficiaries of sexual and reproductive health policies. The article refers to indigenous Tikuna concepts of the body and body practices in the Colombian Amazon.

Keywords : body; health; sexuality; reproduction; public health; Amazonia.

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