Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina

Autores
Freidin, Betina; Ballesteros, Matías Salvador
Año de publicación
2015
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This article analyzes the process of adoption of Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Buenos Aires, focusing on sociocultural dimensions and material aspects which either facilitate or discourage the following of this foreign medical tradition. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian medicine whose popularity has been on the rise among the Argentinean middle and upper classes. Introduced as a ‘lifestyle’ medicine, it resonates with the new health consciousness of individual responsibility in health maintenance and improvement. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with 20 followers of Ayurveda in Buenos Aires, the article shows that it attracts New Agers, adherents to food-driven subcultures, and patients dissatisfied with the limitations of biomedicine. Followers develop new skills for self-understanding, self-healing, and wellbeing. As adherents to a foreign medical approach, however, they adopt Ayurvedic practices in flexible ways, and some even hold critical views on the elitist market niches of Ayurvedic specialists and products.
Fil: Freidin, Betina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Ballesteros, Matías Salvador. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina
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Ayurveda
Choice
Complementary And Alternative Medicine
Healthcare
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
title Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
spellingShingle Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
Freidin, Betina
Ayurveda
Choice
Complementary And Alternative Medicine
Healthcare
title_short Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
title_full Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
title_fullStr Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
title_sort Choosing Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Freidin, Betina
Ballesteros, Matías Salvador
author Freidin, Betina
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Ballesteros, Matías Salvador
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ayurveda
Choice
Complementary And Alternative Medicine
Healthcare
topic Ayurveda
Choice
Complementary And Alternative Medicine
Healthcare
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This article analyzes the process of adoption of Ayurveda as a healthcare practice in Buenos Aires, focusing on sociocultural dimensions and material aspects which either facilitate or discourage the following of this foreign medical tradition. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian medicine whose popularity has been on the rise among the Argentinean middle and upper classes. Introduced as a ‘lifestyle’ medicine, it resonates with the new health consciousness of individual responsibility in health maintenance and improvement. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with 20 followers of Ayurveda in Buenos Aires, the article shows that it attracts New Agers, adherents to food-driven subcultures, and patients dissatisfied with the limitations of biomedicine. Followers develop new skills for self-understanding, self-healing, and wellbeing. As adherents to a foreign medical approach, however, they adopt Ayurvedic practices in flexible ways, and some even hold critical views on the elitist market niches of Ayurvedic specialists and products.
Fil: Freidin, Betina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Ballesteros, Matías Salvador. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina
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