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Social Representations of the Body, the Skin, and Related Diseases in Indigenous Thought

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The original idea of this book arose from the observation of the high prevalence of skin diseases in the daily routine of health professionals who work for the Primary Health Care in Amazon’s indigenous areas and the absence of adequate support material for these professionals.

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    Le Breton [13].

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    Clastres [14].

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    These stories were extracted from the Field Researches performed by the Indigenous Health Agents (IHA), who are part of the graduation course developed by Unifesp at the Xingu Lower, Middle and Upper coverage area, DSEI Xingu/MT.

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    Marcos Cesar Florian, Jane Tomimori, Sofia Beatriz Machado de Mendonça & Douglas Antonio Rodrigues

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Florian, M.C., Tomimori, J., de Mendonça, S.B.M., Rodrigues, D.A. (2017). Social Representations of the Body, the Skin, and Related Diseases in Indigenous Thought. In: Dermatological Atlas of Indigenous People. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59446-0_1

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