Salud- Enfermedad y Cuerpo- Mente en la Medicina Ayurvédica de la India y en la Biomedicina Contemporánea.

Abstract

This article discussesthe categories of health-illness and body-mind in the ayurvedic medicine of india and the contemporary biomedicine in as much as socio-cultural institutions and knowledge systems. For this, some socio-cultural, historic, linguistic, political and economic dimensions of each medical system are addressed, looking beyond their construction as merely scientific-technical fields. Thus, what in the ayurvedic medicine is constructed as a relationship between a physical bodyand "subtle" body, in biomedicine is constructed as body-mind. And increasingly with the emphasis on brain function the old body-mind dichotomy is becoming body-brain. Similarly, while ayurvedic medicine focuses on the personal and the emotional, biomedicine doesitin body and illness.

Keywords

• Ayurveda
• biomedicine
• medical Systems
• Health-illness
• body-mind.