Diálogo de saberes: medicina tradicional y medicina occidental moderna
In this space they will be brought forward some reflections based on the progress of the project State of the Art of Ethnomedicine in Colombia, in order to make known one of the most representative categories about "Dialogue of Knowledge" between traditional medicines and modern Western medicine from the framework of Interculturalism as one of the most representative characteristics of the Social Sciences and Education. The Dialogue of knowledge is seen as a tendency within cultural studies that establishes a dialogue among Academy, Researchers, and Institutions of Public Health in this case, the expertise of communities from Participatory Action Research, The Collective Synergy and empowerment of communities in order to produce new knowledge and dynamics of participation from both realities.
Historically, relations between the two cultures have been traumatic for the inequality, discrimination, exclusion to what ethnic minorities have been subjected by the policies and the lack of mainstream society, in which approaches to traditional knowledge have mercantilist or utilitarian purpose. In that sense, they are attempts to generate new proposals for more appropriate approaches where intercultural dialogue is the basis for promoting the recognition between these systems and therefore comply with the research line that frames this project, The Visibility and Management Knowledge.
As it is a State of the Art, the methodology has been exploratory and descriptive based on the search of publications found on physical and electronic databases, and publications of communities, and then to establish the categories of analysis and approaches.
This category will be approached from the concepts of health and disease and the principal characteristics of each one, the intercultural dynamics that are generated, investigating the
present and the future of this one dialog from the scenes and actors, taking as a reference the principal tool the Etnomedicina, as emergent discipline and his frame of action
