Nota editorial
Claudia Steiner, Germán András Molina
Creencia y verdad en los sistemas terapéuticos contemporáneos
Issue 6 | 2008
Table of Contents
Editorial
Belief and truth in contemporary therapeutic systems
Carlos Alberto Uribe, María Angélica Ospina
Lenguajes
Beauty and the beast
Michael Taussig, Sally Station
Pastors and financial accountability in West Africa pentecostalism
Asonzeh Ukah
Miradas
Madness and psychiatric confinement in mexico: the case of Manicomio La Castañeda, 1910
Andrés Ríos Molina
The use of space and embodied beliefs: phychiatry and psychoanalysis in an Argentinean psychiatric service
Sergio Visacovsky
Yajé purgatory and showbiz
Carlos Alberto Uribe
Therapeutic technologies: interpretation systems in the regla de ocha and spiritism in Bogotá
Luis Carlos Castro Ramírez
Power, knowledge, and belief: following the trail of the ruda plant in Bogotá, Colombia
Santiago Martínez Medina
Infection, cure, and therapeutic efficiency: disagreements between biomedical knowledge about leprosy in Colombia
Claudia Patricia Platarrueda Vanegas
Diseminaciones
Social representations and cancer metaphors during the XVII and XVIII centuries: an anthology of common places
Hernando Salcedo Fidalgo
At the crossroads of anthropology and organ transplants: tendencies, concepts and agendas
Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar
“Vivir las ideas, idear la vida“: adversity, suicide and flexibility in the ethos of the embera and wounaan peoples of Riosucio, Colombia
Rodrigo Iván Sepúlveda López de Mesa
Bodies, corpses, and food: cannibalism, commensalism and social organization in the Amazon
Víctor Vacas Mora
Privatizing care: inequality, intimacy, and drug use in the gran Buenos Aires, Argentina
María E. Epele
Socio-cultural risk context for the transmission of HIV in Cartagena, Colombia
Roberto Suárez, Natalia Niño, Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Juan Fernando Vesga