Forms of Volunteerism in Public Health. Professionalization Processes in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Field.

SAIZAR, MERCEDES; BORDES, MARIANA; SARUDIANSKY, MECEDES; KORMAN, GUIDO PABLO

International Journal of Research in Sociology and Anthropology

Editorial Acamedician´s Reserach Centre

Lugar: Hyderabad; Año: 2016 vol. 2 p. 26 - 35

Based on a phenomenological and qualitative approach the paper will focus on the emergence and definitions of roles of a new type of social volunteers in the public health system of Argentina. The relevance of this election is based on the differential traits this way of participation has as against other modes of insertion in the health sector that existed in different historical periods; that is to say, the differences between old and new volunteers. In this framework, we will emphasize our analysis in how these new ways of volunteerism shape a series of strategies of inclusion of complementary and alternative medicines in the public healthcare system, introducing ?in an unofficial manner? discourses and practices for healthcare different to those proposed by official biomedicine.