The integral and intercultural approach of the patient

Abstract

To overcome the biologistic and dehumanizing approach of hegemonic medicine, care models self-define arrogantly "with an integral, bio-psycho-social, and intercultural approach". This article criticizes the positivist pretension of the patient's integral and intercultural approach. And then he proposes a method of approach using concepts from the social sciences as an essential support so that doctors can overcome biologism and medical positivism.

The authors understand interculturality as a problem of power, in which, not only economic and political interests are confronted but also ways of thinking, valuing and feeling the world. Interculturality in Medicine is the possibility of creating subjective and objective conditions that allow the free choice of the "therapeutic itinerary" on the part of patients, through "real intercuturality". What it means to decolonize the medical office, to turn it into an inclusive space of diversity.