IN AN ELSEWHERE. A history of medical paradigms and concepts

The history of medical conceptualisations is, at the same time, a history of ideas of health and illness/sickness/pathology, a history of healing practices, a history of religion, a history of places used to achieve healing. The study of oral medical knowledge in the Nahua context (Mexico) offers a broad and articulated perspective of investigation that allows us to understand how different medical paradigms relate to the themes of bodily and social suffering and to healing ideas and practices